When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little indication that it would become so widespread and so destructive. Within 30 ...

Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a ...

University of Missouri researchers develop live HPAI vaccine with DIVA technology to distinguish vaccinated from infected birds, solving major poultry export barriers and reducing costs significantly.

New research at Kansas State University aims to tackle one of the most significant threats to global animal health and food security — highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI — by using mealworms, ...

For the first time, confirmation of the deadly H5N1 virus has been detected in California's elephant seal population.

Two weeks after scientists confirmed the first-ever outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, in elephant seals along the California coast, the disease has spread to other marine mammals, researchers ...

From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all ...

Discover how CRISPR-based therapy could revolutionize HPAI treatment in poultry, offering farmers a lifesaving alternative to complete flock depopulation and preventing costly outbreaks.

Non-CHO cell expression systems gain traction as faster, more flexible alternatives for biologics manufacturing.

February, biologists have been struggling to control an outbreak of avian flu in a colony of more than 1,300 elephant seals at Año Nuevo, a state park 55 miles south of San Francisco. It’s the first ...

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