It all starts very quickly. Before health officials have any chance to contain a new strain of influenza, the highly ...

Florida is reporting an early jump in cases of Vibrio vulnificus, or flesh-eating bacteria. So far this year eight cases have been reported, double what was reported this time last year. The naturally ...

Clare Howard was one of the first people to be vaccinated against the bird flu strain The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic ...

Former WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has warned a future pandemic could be 'much worse than coronavirus'.

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

While the disease primarily affects birds, health experts say certain strains of the virus, especially H5N1, can occasionally infect humans and cause severe illness.

The next pandemic is not a question of if – it is a question of when. Science has better tools now: faster sequencing, ...

Every few years, a virus exposes how unprepared the world remains. COVID-19 did so in 2020, H5N1 bird flu continues to raise ...

Experts warn that while the virus is "evolving and spreading" rapidly among animals, and does not yet easily transmit between people, the potential for human-to-human transmission must be treated "as ...