What can Australia learn from Asia's battle with H5N1 variant bird flu?

Experts say Asia's decades-long experience fighting bird flu has shown there is no magic bullet and that fragmented responses ...

Australia Was The Last Continent Without This Bird Flu. A Dead Skua Just Changed That

H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia, the last continent it had spared. It came from Antarctica via seabirds, and the next ...

What’s the risk of humans getting sick from bird flu?

The outbreak isn’t widespread, so the risk to humans is low. But it does have the potential to cause severe illness.

Bird flu kills more than 75% of baby seals on remote Australian island, study finds

Scientists say 13,000 southern elephant seal pups on Heard Island have died of the H5N1 strain.

Nepal’s bird flu outbreak spreads, breeding pandemic mutation fears

Nepal has culled 600,000 birds as H5N1 sweeps Kathmandu, closing the capital’s only zoo and raising fears it could mutate to ...

How is the Australian poultry industry preparing for a possible outbreak of bird flu?

The poultry industry is on high alert. But authorities have had years to prepare for this moment and plans are being put in ...
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U.S. Farmers Prepare for Arrival of Asian Bird Flu

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Bird flu’s surprising heat tolerance has scientists worried

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...
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Asian nations restrict U.S. poultry imports over bird flu

SEOUL/CHICAGO (Reuters) - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong have limited imports of U.S. poultry after the United States detected its first case this year of avian flu on a commercial chicken ...