Insights and Stories on Influenza

Flu experts gather with H5N1 risk on the agenda

Feb. 24, 2023 at 2:14 am CST

London | Reuters — The world’s leading experts on influenza met this week to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu that has caused record numbers of bird deaths around the world in recent months. The group of scientists, regulators and vaccine manufacturers meets […]

Another swine flu variant case appears in Manitoba

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:16 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Swine flu strain makes first jump to person in Canada

Nov. 4, 2020 at 2:44 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Chinese researchers warn of new virus in pigs with human pandemic risk

Jun. 30, 2020 at 1:55 am CDT

By Reuters

Gene-edited chickens planned in bid to halt next pandemic

Jan. 21, 2019 at 7:54 pm CST

By Kate Kelland

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Tennessee, Alabama

Mar. 17, 2017 at 9:25 pm CDT

Cross-border travellers coming into Canada from the U.S. are being warned not to bring in raw poultry or eggs from Tennessee or Alabama following outbreaks of avian flu in those states. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday announced restrictions on imports of uncooked poultry products, live birds and/or eggs […]

By Staff

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

Jan. 26, 2017 at 3:56 pm CST

London | Reuters — The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. Multiple outbreaks have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, […]

By Kate Kelland

Britain confirms H5N8 in ducks on farm in north

Nov. 18, 2014 at 6:34 pm CST

London | Reuters — Bird flu on a duck farm in northern England is the highly contagious H5N8 strain, the same form of the virus already discovered in Germany and the Netherlands, Britain’s farm ministry confirmed on Tuesday. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said that the […]

By Costas Pitas