A teenager in Canada, hospitalized with the country's first case of the H5N1 bird flu, is in critical condition. Health ...

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, is hospitalized with the country's first confirmed case of the H5N1 bird flu virus.

H5N1 is an HPAI that causes severe illness and a high mortality rate in birds. "Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus and highly ...

Four egg farm workers in Washington state have tested "presumptively positive" for bird flu.

"Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) and A(H5N6) viruses have been responsible ...

A reassortant H5N6 avian flu virus detected in three Asian nations over the past few weeks has been confirmed in an outbreak in the Netherlands. In other developments, South Korea—one of the countries ...

Factors including density of pig and density of human population emerged as common significant predictors for H5N1 (relative contributions: 5.3, 5.8%), H5N6 (10.8, 6.4%), H9N2 (11.2, 7.3%), and H7N9 ...

Non-neutralizing antibodies against the nucleoprotein (NP) of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus are protective ... the authors isolate an antibody from an H5N6 infected patient, characterize ...

H5N6 is known to circulate in poultry in some Asian countries ... The group added that the rapidly evolving virus and spread to new geographic regions—most recently Antarctica—require a review of ...

The virus, which is transmitted via insect bite, seems to be reaching new areas, undergoing genetic changes, and may harm fetuses. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology ...