If true, it could mean that the virus can rapidly evolve to make the jump from birds to humans. It’s a worrying development but it doesn’t mean that a new pandemic is imminent, says ...

2:00 Health Matters: Bird flu detected in U.S. pig Bird flu has spread far and wide, infecting a range of species like chickens, skunks, cows, foxes and polar bears and renewing questions about ...

Dr. Oliveira is the director of the Center for Epidemic Response and Innovation in South Africa. As a virus scientist in South Africa, I’ve been watching with dread as H5N1 bird flu spreads ...

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Another strain of bird flu (H5N1) has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Cornwall, with a mass cull of the birds ordered by the government. All birds at the St Ives premises will now be humanely ...

With bird flu cases continuing to rise across the U.S., and a teenager now in critical condition in Canada after contracting the virus, alarm bells are sounding over how big the outbreak could become.

2:12 H5N1 avian influenza: B.C. reports 1st suspected human case of bird flu People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen ...

Nov 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday confirmed highly pathogenic form of bird flu in a person in Oregon. The infected person is linked to a ...

A raw fable about looking up instead of feeling down, “Bird” shows writer-director Andrea Arnold back in a familiar milieu of cramped youth on the periphery, making do with what little is ...

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Make no mistake, although Keoghan and Franz Rogowski (Passages) are the names in Bird, it's teenager Nykiya Adams's movie. She plays Bailey, a 12-year-old effectively bringing herself up while she ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...