Avian influenza, which primarily affects poultry, has now adapted to wild birds, accompanying them in their journeys across ...

Highly pathogenic strains of H5N1 influenza have been spreading in ... five African servals and one Eurasian Lynx. The first indication that “there wasn’t something quite right” was when ...

One Amur Bengal Tiger, one African Caracal, one Bengal Cat, one Geoffroy Cat, one Eurasian Lynx, two Canada Lynx, four Bobcats, four Cougars, and five African Servals, lost their lives to the ...

No evidence was found of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, which caused mortality in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa. There was no evidence that this strain occurred in North American wild birds.

Seven H5N1 subtype strains were analyzed for NA gene evolution ... The H9 subtype avian influenza virus is globally distributed and classified into Eurasian and American lineages based on HA genes ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...

A 3-year-old girl died from respiratory complications due to H5N1 bird flu in Mexico The girl had no underlying medical conditions and no history of travel The strain is the same one implicated in ...

The outbreak, detected in February on a farm in the Bong county, killed 18 birds out of a flock of 26,000, the Paris-based WOAH said, quoting information from Liberian authorities. The disease ...

To slow the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza — such as the prevalent H5N1 strain — real-time reporting of current genome data is crucial. Yet “extensive delays” of 7.5 months or ...