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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human and bird flu strains.

A new study shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians. The study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention echoes two smaller ones that ...

can serve as mixing vessels that would allow the bird flu virus to mutate and become more likely to infect people. In some cases it could even cause more severe disease. Cats especially can have ...

Trader Joe’s and other grocers are limiting the number of eggs customers can buy across the U.S., citing limited supply ...

Despite not remaining prominent in the news, the avian flu is still active worldwide ., causing bird deaths and spreading to ...

The soaring price of eggs is a ripple effect of an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza, also known as H5N1 or bird flu, which ...