Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.

The highly pathogenic form of H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in Europe, Asia and Africa since 2020, killing many wild ...

Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly. The tips of Lineke Begeman's fingers are ...

The deadly H5N1 bird flu strain has reached the most remote place on Earth, threatening its unique and endangered wildlife, an "alarming" new study of Antarctica has found.

Bird flu has crept uncomfortably close to home in recent months. Public health experts have detected nearly five dozen known infections of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in people in the U.S ...

H5N1 bird flu has been found in birds in Antarctica for the first time. Experts worry that the deadly strain of bird flu could spread around the continent, with devastating consequences for its ...

While Avian Flu, the common name for HPAI, has been around since the 1800s, scientists have been tracking this recent strain, H5N1, as it decimates bird populations throughout the Americas.

The particular virus that causes bird flu — H5N1 — itself is not new. It's a disease that originated in east Asia, first detected in China in 1996. The virus has mostly terrorized poultry ...

This bird flu, which scientists ... It hit the tip of South America and jumped to Antarctica. En route, it killed 40 percent of Peruvian pelicans, at least 24,000 South American sea lions, ...

But it's rare for the bird flu to be transferred from one human to another, according to the AAFP. In order to do so, the virus must transform into a human flu virus.

This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, ... It hit the tip of South America and jumped to Antarctica.