A young pregnant woman has died of bird flu, China’s Health Ministry said, the first reported fatality from the virus since early last year.

The 22-year-old,

Bird flu outbreaks that have killed seven people in several countries so far this year show the virus remains a threat to humans, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday.

An outbreak of deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in a backyard poultry farm in Romania, the European Commission said Tuesday.

The outbreak,

Thousands of ducks and chickens were slaughtered in Vietnam as the government put its best foot forward to control an outbreak of bird flu.

Poultry

The 1918 and 2009 global flu pandemics triggered by the two strains of the H1N1 influenza virus do not cause disease in birds.

The results of the

Concerted efforts to tackle the obstinate bird flu epidemic seem to have paid off. With the last of its cleaning and disinfecting drive in West Bengal

A new study has found that the bird flu virus can survive for up to two years in the carcasses of buried birds.

Dr. Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, an environmental

The cell-signaling protein, interferon type 1, has the potential to reduce H5N1 influenza virus’ (bird flu virus) replication in mice, and can thus offer protection in the early stages of infection.

A 33-year-old woman died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the third death from the disease in Egypt this week, the health ministry announced.

The

More than 1,800 chickens have been culled in southeastern Bangladesh this week after avian flu was detected on a farm, an official said Tuesday.

Veterinary