The only other human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in 2022 and may not have caused any illness, with the CDC stating that the "detection may have been the result of contamination of the nasal ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it banned imports of poultry and wild birds from New Zealand (NZ) after an outbreak of Type H7N6 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly known as ...

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The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for ...

The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported. Louisiana health officials announced the death Monday of a person who had ...

Portugal reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza among poultry, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the deadly ...

New Zealand (NZ) officials said that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm this month. Mary van Andel, chief veterinary officer at the ...

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there ...

The CDC said that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated but the risk remains low to the public as no human-to-human transmission has been documented. (Scri ...

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New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago.

New Zealand has said the outbreak of H7N6 bird flu virus has been contained to a single site in the southern region of Otago.