SOFIA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) on Friday confirmed four outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) Type A virus, all of them in one town. The agency said on its website that the virus was detected in two duck farms, one hen fa...
At the start of February, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) confirmed five foxes and four otters have tested positive for avian flu in England, Scotland and Wales since 2021. The UK isn't alone in seeing the virus crop up in mammals. Around the world it's been fou...
cramped conditions provide a recipe for viruses like bird flu (H5N1) to emerge and spread,” DeCoriolis said in a statement. “We are now on the cusp of another pandemic and the agencies responsible for regulating farms and protecting public health are moving slower than the virus is s...
As of March 1, 2021, no bird flu infections have been reported in humans in the U.S. Although the H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic strain contained some bird flu genes, it was not the same strain as the original H5N1 bird flu. The virus spreads through infected birds shedding the virus in ...
Bird flu virus detected in California raw milk Nov. 24, 2024 Since this particular clade of H5N1 virus (2.3.4.4b) first appeared in North America at the end of 2021, it has infected more than 600 dairy herds across 15 states, hundreds of millions of wild and domesticated birds, and...
Nine otters and foxes have contracted bird flu since 2021, according to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) The animals are thought to have eaten dead wild birds that were infected with the virus, but the UK is a "long way" from being in a situation where humans could be at risk...
Furthermore, Japan reported its first bird flu outbreak of 2021 at a poultry farm in the northeast of the country, the OIE confirmed. The serotype in this outbreak was H5N8. “In Europe, Norway reported an H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the Rogaland region in a flock of 7,000 birds,” the...
What is causing this bird flu outbreak? This particular outbreak is caused by the H5N1 bird flu virus, which was first discovered in China in 1996. In 2021, a new variant of that virus emerged and started spreading around the world. The virus started infecting chickens on poultry farms in ...
The case is the 57th recorded instance of bird flu since the virus hit Cambodia two decades ago. Since late 2021, Europe has been gripped by its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, with North and South America also experiencing severe outbreaks. ...
A rise in mammals infected with bird flu has put Canadian wildlife and public health experts on alert, as recent research by federal scientists warns of a "potentially devastating pandemic" if the virus tearing through poultry flocks eventually mutat