Johanna Harvey, an assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology at the University of Rhode Island, has described bird flu in public presentations as a quiet virus with loud consequences. Now, she's ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports abnormal changes in flu viruses, developed by a research team from the ...

Johanna Harvey’s new paper in Wildlife Monographs describes how circulating avian influenza viruses show an expanded set of susceptible hosts and higher transmission rates. Johanna Harvey, an ...

Long-term wild bird surveillance across China revealed shifting H5Nx avian influenza patterns, with H5N1, H5N8, and clade 2.3 ...

Avian influenza A (H5N1) virus has spread in bird populations in Asia; in 2004, it infected at least 44 humans, killing 32. Three recent studies provide new information about its spread in human ...

At this point, avian flu H5N1 is thought to have very limited ability to transmit between humans, but a recent case in British Columbia with an unknown source of transmission has piqued the curiosity ...

Tamil Nadu is facing renewed concern over avian influenza after more than 1,500 crows were found dead across Chennai, with laboratory confirmation of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus in wild birds ...