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China records world’s first human death from H3N8 bird flu

A Chinese woman has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans, the World Health...

First case of bird flu detected in a human

Chile detected the first case of bird flu in a human, the country's health ministry reported on Wednesday. The bird flu case was detected in...

Experts gather with bird flu on the agenda

The world's leading experts on influenza met this week to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu (bird...

Bird flu alarm drives world towards once-shunned vaccines

French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a wave...

Bird flu threatens non-stop “war” on poultry

Bird flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus...

Bird flu detected in mammals but risk to humans low: experts

Experts have warned that the recent detection of bird flu in mammals including foxes, otters, minks, seals and even grizzly bears is concerning but...

Bird flu kills close to a record number of poultry in US

A near-record number of US chickens and turkeys have died in this year's outbreak of avian flu, as a different form of the virus...

Europe faces worst ever bird flu crisis

Europe has experienced its worst bird flu crisis ever this year with nearly 50 million poultry culled, and the persistence of the virus over...

Bird flu discovered at Dutch farm; 216,000 chickens to be culled

Authorities discovered an outbreak of a highly-contagious strain of bird flu at a farm in the Netherlands and said they would cull about 170,000...

UK tackles ‘largest-ever’ bird flu outbreak

UK has culled around half a million birds this year as the country battles its "largest-ever" avian flu outbreak, the government said on Thursday. Alongside...

Poultry in lockdown after Belgium detects bird flu

Belgium ordered its poultry into lockdown from Monday after detecting a case of bird flu in a wild duck, extending avian quarantine measures already...

China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu

The man, a resident of the city of Zhenjiang, was hospitalised on April 28 after developing a fever and other symptoms, the NHC said in a statement.

Is there a risk of human spread of H5N8 bird flu? WHO clarifies

Russia registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named influenza A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the WHO

Russia reports world’s first case of human infection with H5N8 bird flu

Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday.

Germany may cull up to 70,000 chickens over bird flu

Type H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a farm near Rostock in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,

Tens of thousands birds culled to contain H5N6 outbreak

The authorities have culled the birds, mostly chicken and ducks, at farms in Nghe An, Thanh Hoa and Quang Ninh provinces, said the official

Second case of H5N8 bird flu found in Hungary in a week

A second outbreak of bird flu has been found at a large duck farm in eastern Hungary, the National Food Chain Safety Authority (NEBIH) said on Wednesday, two days after the first such case in the country in years.

Bird flu outbreak spreads, with four more cases

An outbreak of the H5N8 strain was also confirmed on a chicken farm in Przygodzice, in the western Wielkopolskie region

UK reports bird flu for first time since 2017

Britain’s government said bird flu had been confirmed at a chicken farm in eastern England on Tuesday, the first such report since June 2017

Mild bird flu virus detected on duck farm

France has detected a low-pathogenic H5 bird flu virus on a duck farm in the centre of the country
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