H5N1 bird flu detected across four Nepal districts, over 113,000 birds culled

No direct human casualties reported, but H5N1 poses zoonotic transmission risk to humans with potential fatal outcomes.

In the foothills and plains of Nepal, an ancient adversary has returned in a more dangerous form. Since mid-March 2026, H5N1 avian influenza has moved across four districts — Morang, Sunsari, Jhapa, and Chitwan — claiming more than 113,000 birds and nearly 212,000 eggs in a containment effort that reflects both the virus's speed and humanity's hard-learned lessons from decades of outbreak response. Nepal's struggle is not isolated; it unfolds within a global surge of H5N1 that has redrawn the boundaries of what epidemiologists once thought possible, reminding us that the line between animal an

H5N1 bird flu detected across four Nepal districts, over 113,000 birds culled

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