Scientists say the H5N1 virus is increasingly effective at infecting wild birds, letting the virus spread more efficiently ...

Avian influenza has been confirmed at an organic laying hen farm in Streefkerk, leading authorities to cull roughly 16,000 ...

Farmer Steve Childerhouse said he would be tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket and workers will lose out after the ...

According to a new study, an evolutionary shift around 2020 helped the bird flu virus adapt better to wild birds.

Infectious disease veterinarian Scott Weese says the hundreds of ostriches shot dead on a rainy night at a British Columbia ...

Dawlish Town Council has confirmed the outbreak and pledged to follow all health and safety procedures. Town clerk Andrew ...

A raised alert on the risks of bird flu has triggered heightened security measures at the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust's ...

There are professionals in Canada that have different solutions where all of the animals won't need to be slaughtered,' says ...

A plea to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to spare an animal sanctuary's peacocks from possible euthanasia order is being considered, after an outbreak of avian flu. Summerland's Critteraid Animal ...

Town clerk Andrew McKenzie said five birds in the aviary had already died and tests confirmed they had had bird flu. He said ...

The first human to have ever been infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials confirmed ...

Dr Nikolaus Kriz, the new director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has a large and varied brief ahead of him.