The risk to humans from bird flu remains low, but countries must prepare for any change in the status quo, the World Health Organisation has said.

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported the outbreak of the new strain, H5N9, earlier this week.

Dr Hirofumi Kugita, World Organization for Animal Health, Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, acknowledged India's leadership in veterinary services and its potential to contribute ...

Widespread animal vaccination could help control the spread of diseases like bird flu, protecting public health and trade, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health. While vaccination ...

More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, following the first death of a ...

Taiwan has been officially declared free of African swine fever, making it one of only two countries in East Asia to eradicate the contagious disease that carries a high mortality rate in pigs.

Outbreaks of the animal disease in Italy and France mark the "first-ever occurrence" of the virus in the countries ...

Last year, Emmanuelle Soubeyran took the helm at the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) as one such pathogen was making headlines the world over: H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu, which ...

The agency has consistently concealed Hamas’s abuses and misrepresented Israel’s counterterrorism efforts.

A new strain of bird flu — H5N9 — has been detected in California’s Merced County at a commercial duck operation. According to the World Organization for Animal Health — an international ...

Dr Hirofumi Kugita, World Organization for Animal Health, Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, acknowledged India's leadership in veterinary services and its potential to contribute ...