Burkina Faso’s government confirmed on Wednesday that an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu was responsible for the deaths of large numbers of chickens in two regions of the country in recent weeks.
Reuters
Apr 01, 2015
China’s decision has been widely criticized as the possibility of an outbreak of the flu in commercial flocks is believed to be very less.
Kukil Bora
Jan 13, 2015
After mishandling Ebola, avian flu and anthrax during the past year, the CDC is now recruiting for its new safety-chief position.
Shuan Sim
Jan 02, 2015
Doctors warn that low temperatures during winter could cause the virus to stay active for a longer period of time.
Sneha Shankar
Dec 22, 2014
The latest diagnosis marks the second reported case of H7N9 bird flu in China in the past two weeks.
Dion Rabouin
Dec 06, 2014
While the virus detected in the Netherlands was identified as H5N8, the strain of the virus in the U.K. has so far not been identified.
Avaneesh Pandey
Nov 17, 2014
The U.N. is warning about A(H5N6), a new strain of avian flu that is striking chicken and geese from China to Vietnam.
Connor Adams Sheets
Sep 23, 2014
CDC, on Friday, shut down two labs that mishandled anthrax and bird flu viruses and barred shipment of samples from high security labs.
Avaneesh Pandey
Jul 12, 2014
As more H7N9 fatalities are reported, scientists determine a gene found in Chinese people may make them more susceptible to sickness.
Michelle FlorCruz
Feb 05, 2014
Chinese health officials have confirmed that a new strain of bird flu has killed a woman in Jiangxi province.
Michelle FlorCruz
Dec 18, 2013
A 73-year-old woman apparently contracted the virus after visiting a live-poultry market in a town 450 miles southwest of Shanghai.
Sreeja VN
Dec 18, 2013
Scientists think a 32-year-old woman caught the new bird flu strain from her father.
Roxanne Palmer
Aug 07, 2013
A strain of the H7N9 bird flu virus found in a human patient efficiently spread from one ferret to another in a new study.
Roxanne Palmer
Jul 18, 2013
New bird flu infections are spreading outward from Shanghai, Chinese officials said on Tuesday.
Maya Shwayder
Apr 23, 2013
Forty percent of H7N9 bird flu victims had no contact with poultry. How did they get the disease?
Michelle FlorCruz
Apr 18, 2013
China's H7N9 avian flu death toll rises with one more death confirmed.
Michelle FlorCruz
Apr 09, 2013
IBTimes reporters visited hospitals and markets in China to get a closer look at the avian flu situation.
Sophie Song
Apr 08, 2013
Is America up to its old 'bio-psychological warfare tricks' again? A Chinese military officer says so, and he's not joking.
Michelle FlorCruz
Apr 08, 2013
McDonald’s restaurants in Shanghai slashed chicken McNugget prices amid rising bird flu concerns.
Carey Vanderborg
Apr 08, 2013
Although the number of those infected is slowly rising, officials in China say the current H7N9 avian flu will be easier to contain than SARS.
Michelle FlorCruz
Apr 05, 2013
China confirmed Friday a sixth death from a lesser known H7N9 strain of the bird flu virus, while 14 people remain infected.
Sreeja VN
Apr 05, 2013
After China's Health Ministry confirmed the nation's first human cases of the new H7N9 bird flu strain, four more people now have the disease.
Michelle FlorCruz
Apr 02, 2013