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bird flu

British

noun

Also called: avian flu. a form of influenza occurring in poultry mainly in Japan, China and Southeast Asia, caused by a virus capable of spreading to humans

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Anthropic this month said it had detected attempts to use its Claude chatbot to engineer a dangerous bird flu adapted for mammals, with “enhanced pandemic potential.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The scientific research in those cases involved work around the mosquito-born chikungunya virus, a "highly-pathogenic" strain of the bird flu, a family of viruses that include smallpox and mpox, venoms and other toxins.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

But in the era of bird flu, this must stop.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

The H5N1 bird flu virus was first identified in poultry in Asia in 1996 before spreading to wild bird populations around the world.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

In December 2024, when egg prices started ticking up after a new round of bird flu cases, Hickman’s CEO got a text from Cal-Maine’s former CEO, saying, “Let it rip.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

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