Health experts have raised alarms over the H5N1 strain of bird flu, suggesting it could potentially trigger a global pandemic far more severe than COVID-19. This comes in the wake of a Texas man contracting the H5N1 virus from dairy cows, ...
The World Health Organization has reported a high number of cats testing positive for bird flu in Poland. World Health Organization officials reported that more than half of those tested carried the strain of bird flu known as H5N1. Of the ...
The surging bird flu cases around the globe have raised concern, mainly due to the fact that the virus may increase human infection risk. So, it is quite natural that bird flu outbreaks have raised concerns about the safety of consuming ...
The recent surge in bird flu outbreaks across the globe has caused a slight panic among global health bodies, with the UN agencies warning that the virus may be adapting to infect humans more easily in the future. Bird ...
A recent surge in bird flu outbreaks across the globe has prompted three UN agencies to warn that the virus may be adapting to infect humans more easily in the future. World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of ...
The first human death from H3N8 bird flu has been reported in China. WHO said in a statement, "The patient was a 56-year-old female from Guangdong province with an onset of illness on 22 February 2023. She was hospitalised for severe ...
Common cold and flu are the two types of viral infections often characterised by similar symptoms such as fever, cough, cold, runny nose and many others. While the common cold is usually milder, flu symptoms can get severe and intense and ...
Bird flu (Avian influenza) is a viral disease that not only affects birds such as chicken, ducks and geese, but also animals and humans when they come in direct contact with these infected poultry. When infected, humans get symptoms in around ...
Bird flu, also termed as H5N1 or avian influenza is a type of zoonotic influenza virus that gets transmitted to humans usually through infected live or dead poultry which includes chicken, turkey or wild ducks. Symptoms of bird flu include ...
Scientists from Imperial College London, University of Reading and University of North Carolina, USA conducted a study to find out why bird flu did not become a pandemic. They say that bird flu viruses would have to undergo ...
During the past months lakhs of birds were killed to prevent bird flu, in India. Along with the chicken industry, shuttlecocks Industry was also affected badly as shuttlecocks use bird feathers on them. ...
Washington, : The code of most dreaded virus, H5N1 avian influenza, which has devoured thousands of lives around the globe, has been cracked, claimed researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, Queensland. ...