Maeve Cullinan

Live traces of H5N1 bird flu have been found in batches of raw milk sold at retail stores across California, state regulators said on Sunday.

The weekly shop in Brazil is a little different these days, and may soon change in other parts of the world plagued by dengue fever.

Britain has secured five million doses of H5 bird flu vaccine to prepare for a possible global pandemic, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced today.

A family of four who visited the West Midlands unwittingly triggered one of the most severe measles outbreaks in Britain for almost a decade

Ten patients infected with the mystery illness spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo have tested positive for malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

If H5N1 is confirmed, it will mark the first time a person would be known to have contracted the virus directly from drinking raw milk

A child who is believed to be infected with H5N1 may have caught the virus from drinking raw milk, health officials said on Tuesday.

We call them farms but the great bulk of food producing businesses in the west are better described as agricultural production plants.

Scientists say that, like pigs, they are a ‘mixing vessel’ that could enable H5N1 bird flu to mutate and spread to humans

A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalised with H5N1 bird flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.