Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

The viruses that cause avian influenza are potential threats to global health. Recent animal outbreaks from a subtype called H5N1 have been especially troubling to scientists. Although human ...

Vaccination remains the most effective strategy for avian influenza prevention and control in humans, despite varying vaccine efficacy across strains. That's according to the authors of a new ...

(CNN) -- A physician monitoring the threat of avian influenza says a key question is whether the strain of bird flu in Asia has mutated into a flu that could result in a human pandemic. Dr. Marc ...

In 1997, avian influenza virus (H5N1) caused severe human disease in Hong Kong. One of 9 infected children and 5 of 9 infected adults died. Investigators hypothesized that this virus is lethal ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

Ecuadorian health authorities have confirmed the first case of avian influenza in a human patient. The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) announced it was a 9-year-old girl who had been in contact ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, are reporting a second human case of avian flu has been found as the outbreak spreads among birds and cattle in the country. The patient ...

As avian influenza continues to spread around the world, researchers in Japan are turning to human medicine to protect rare and endangered bird species. Anti-virals are turning out good results in ...

According to a Health Canada document on avian influenza: "Human infections can happen when the virus gets into a person's mouth, nose or eyes, or is inhaled. This can happen when the virus is in ...

Much like influenza strains in humans, avian flu strains also evolve. “This virus has a habit of changing, getting ahead of us, and kind of rerouting when we think we have to figure it out ...

The good news is that people can take basic measures to slow down the evolution of H5N1 and potentially reduce the lethality of avian influenza should it ever become a common human infection.