The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the nation’s first avian influenza A(H5N1) human ...

Scientists say the genetic changes seen in the Canadian case are ominous. HealthDay News — In a development that health experts have warned might come, Canadian officials report that the bird flu ...

In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, multiple reassortment events in pigs and birds led to the novel H1N1 virus strain, which led ...

Known as a leucistic blackbird, it is a genetic mutation which affects the pigment in the bird's feathers - turning them white - and is found in just one in every 30,000. But, if it was not for Mr ...

A rare case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been confirmed in a child in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The child, who is a ...

Efforts to contain the virus are falling short. A teenager in Canada is in critical condition after an unexplained infection.

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A Welsh university student snapped images of a rare bird during an educational trip to Borneo. Zoology student Lewis Ferguson was taking part in a tropical ecology and conservation field course ...

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The bird was first spotted by Dr Miguel Lurgi, one of the lecturers in the course, who noticed a rare bird during field activities and the team had to research exactly what it was. After the initial ...