The plan entails a makeover of NCDC by setting up five new regional offices, 20 new metropolitan surveillance units, and 27 ...

Will it be a year of "fractured resilience"? Or "pragmatic empathy"? Will "MOUs" be the next global health strategy? Are we ...

Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs, the planned pick, would lead the office amid concerns that efforts to brace for the next global health crisis are flagging.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and “protein language” models can speed the design of monoclonal antibodies that prevent or reduce the severity of potentially life-threatening viral infections, according ...

Influenza presents a global health challenge due to its rapidly changing RNA genome. These mutations can result in serious ...

As well as the poultry outbreaks in Namibia and Nigeria outlined above, a total of 26 outbreaks of HPAI have been confirmed in South Africa’s wild and domestic birds since October. This is according ...

Veterinarians and agriculture experts are warning Colorado flock owners to be cautious as high pathogen avian influenza is making a return to the region. Commercial and backyard flocks have been ...

Prior seasonal influenza virus immunity did not impair antibody responses or protection conferred by the intranasal H5N1 vaccine.

A presumptive positive case of H5 avian flu was found in a commercial broiler flock in Kent County. The flock has been quarantined and depopulated to prevent the virus from spreading further. This is ...

Post-2020, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 circulation is characterised by spatially expanded ecological suitability, changes in key environmental predictors, and a wider range of avian species ...