H5N1 is a strain of type A avian influenza virus, commonly referred to as bird flu. It primarily affects birds, especially farmed poultry such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

Georgia’s bald eagles are having an average nesting year – and that’s good news, according to the scientists who study them.

Over the last three weeks there have been a number of cases of groups of dead wild sea birds washing up on shorelines in ...

A strain of bird flu that has jumped from animals to people in the United States could find its way to Europe, EU scientists have warned in a new report. EU-US trade of “raw milk” products and wild ...