South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...

South Africa has reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on ...

The H5N1 virus caused the first human outbreak of avian influenza in Hong Kong in 1997. 1 Over the next 16 years, up to June 2013, more than 600 human cases with 60% mortality have been reported from ...