Bird flu

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, May 20, 2026

A 2025 photo shows (from left) US President Donald Trump, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attending a NATO summit in the Netherlands.

Norway reports Europe’s first case of bird flu in a polar bear

Samples taken from a polar bear and a walrus that had died in the Svalbard region in the Arctic tested positive for the H5N5 variant of the bird flu virus.

Bird flu may spread through air on California dairy farms, study finds

H5N1 is spreading globally in birds and spilling into mammals including cattle, elephant seals and sea lions.

Bird flu strikes California elephant seals for the first time

The colony of elephants seals at Año Nuevo is one of the world's most well-studied.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Dec 13, 2025

People carrying supplies at Batthkav refugee camp in Cambodia on Dec 12, amid ongoing border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.

Hundreds of storks found dead near Madrid amid wider bird flu surge in Europe

A forestry agent puts a dead stork inside a trash bag found in a field next to the Manzanares river in Perales del Rio, near Madrid, Spain, December 12, 2025. Forestry agents have collected hundreds of dead storks along wetlands in southeastern Madrid, as authorities have confirmed four outbreaks of bird flu in wild birds in the region. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Penguins queue in Paris zoo for their yearly bird flu jabs

A Humboldt penguin is checked by medical staff before vaccination against bird flu at the Paris Vincennes Zoological Park.

Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than Covid-19, France’s Institut Pasteur says

The highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has led to the culling of hundreds of millions of birds in the past few years.

US records second human bird flu death of 2025

The CDC has recorded more than 70 human cases of bird flu in 2025.

Zoo vaccination efforts don’t target every animal, but focus on rare, disease-prone species: Experts

Vaccination being carried out at Pairi Daiza (Belgian zoo) with Ceva Wildlife Research Fund.

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