Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

A bird flu surveillance zone has been set up to cover part of Powys after a case of the disease was confirmed at a farm in Wales. "Highly pathogenic" bird flu has been confirmed at a commercial ...

"HIGHLY pathogenic" bird flu has been confirmed at a commercial poultry premises in Wrexham. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said yesterday (Tuesday, June 24) the case has ...

A 33-year-old woman has died three weeks after getting infected with H5N6 strain of bird flu in China. According to media reports, she caught the rare form of the dangerous disease in the city of ...

The H5N6 strain is considered to be the most deadly, with a mortality rate of 39 per cent. Metro said the strain has infected a large number of people in China in recent years raising concerns ...

A woman died after contracting H5N6 – a rare form of bird flu – following a visit to a live poultry market in Sichuan, Hong Kong. The 33-year-old first developed symptoms on October 22 and was ...

H5N6 was first detected in people in 2014, and since then, 88 cases have been detected – all but one in China. Commenting on the death, a spokesperson from the World Health Organisation (WHO ...

H5N6 is a dangerous influenza for humans. Once infected, up to 93.8 percent of cases develop into severe cases and death rate could reach above 60 percent, according to a report by a television ...

They isolated an H5N6 virus from a sick duck on a poultry farm in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in June 2021, and another from a dead chicken in the house of a human patient in Chongqing in July 2021.

So far this year, five people have died from the avian flu in China. Two other people died of H5N6 bird flu in December 2021 but the cases were only reported by Chinese health authorities last week.

Five human cases of the H5N6 strain of avian influenza have been reported in China in recent weeks, the Center for Health Protection (CHP) of the Hong Kong Department of Health reported on Thursday.

Since 2014, there have only been 63 reported human cases of avian influenza A (H5N6) in China. Therefore, human immune systems don’t tend to be very familiar this strain of flu virus.