Though suspected outbreaks have been documented since 1878, the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) called influenza A H5N1 occurred in Scotland in ...

A recent Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease journal study assessed the prevalence of the avian influenza H5N8 virus among birds to determine its pervasiveness based on geographical locations and ...

Vietnam has confirmed the first outbreak of the H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in its northern province of Quang Ninh. On July 1, the virus was found in samples from a chicken farm ...

Since October 30, 2020, there have been over 30 recorded outbreaks of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry and wild fowl in Japan. This outbreak was caused by the influenza A ...

Japan has confirmed the highly pathogenic bird flu subtype H5N8 was detected at a poultry farm in the third outbreak of avian ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology shows that the MF59-adjuvanted A (H5N8) vaccine induced strong immune responses, including both functional antibodies and memory T-cell responses, against ...

The emergence and global spread of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza virus (AIV), a pathogen that has caused continuous and ongoing outbreaks with massive mortality in both wild and farmed ...