Disease

News Hour: China confirmed a bird flu outbreak, the country’s sixth case since last October, at a duck farm in central Hubei province, according to a Ministry of Agriculture statement on Tuesday. The outbreak in Daye,...

News Hour: A project that is supporting global health policymakers to make evidence-informed decisions on tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care will continue for a further three years, thanks to a new £2.5 million grant from the...

News Hour: Nepal has reported firmed an outbreak of severe H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in the Koshi region, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from the...

News Hour: A commercial flock of 17,000 chickens in Tennessee has been culled after becoming infected with low-pathogenic bird flu, state agricultural officials said on Thursday, days after a more dangerous form of the disease killed...

News Hour: An Austrian zoo culled 20 pelicans on Friday after it found the entire group was infected with the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus, the zoo said. Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo tested its pelican flock,...

News Hour: Spain has confirmed a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, in the northwestern province of Castilla y Leon, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday....

News Hour: Malaysia has reported an outbreak of a highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday, citing a report from...

News Hour: A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ) reveals that type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with a 26% increase in the risk of...

News Hour: Britain said on Friday it had detected bird flu on premises in eastern England during routine checks carried out following the confirmation of the virus at a nearby farm. The Department for Environment, Food...

News Hour: The risk of sustained human-to-human transmission of H7N9 bird flu in China is low, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, but a surge in human cases there is worrying and requires constant monitoring....