Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

Bird flu infects many species, including wild animals, according to the United Nations. Ducks, quail and at least one eagle ...

Canada has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N5 avian influenza on a non-commercial backyard layer poultry farm in ...

In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the ...

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, as an ...

Today, few Americans remember the 1957 bird flu pandemic – the one that sputtered out before it did real damage. Will we get lucky again?

New strain of bird flu detected in California as H5N9 detected on a duck farm in Merced County, California, David Murray ...

Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and ...

The Trump administration has disrupted the U.S. response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts, ...

Anxieties are high as experts warn the avian flu outbreak could worsen in the spring, but egg prices are spurring more newcomers to start backyard flocks.

Thanks to a social media firestorm and a last-minute court injunction, 400 ostriches that were facing a culling on 1 February ...