Avian influenza, commonly called “bird flu,” is a viral infection that spreads in birds, cows and other animals.

As cases of bird flu continue to climb among wild birds, poultry and cattle in the U.S., the virus poses an increasing threat to human health. A total of 67 human cases of the H5N1 virus have been ...

The farm, which comprises three tin sheet-roofed sheds, houses at least 3,000 chickens on an average. Fire was reported in one of the sheds when Mr. Dharanirajan saw smoke coming from the ...

Bosnia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on ...

Agriculture Victoria says bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in Victoria's north-east ... confirmed by the CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. The business is now working ...

Nevada just confirmed its first human case of avian flu from infected cattle. Nevada’s first case was found in Churchill ...

Wild birds, such as migratory ducks and geese, carry about 140 different types of the virus and can infect chickens and ducks on farms as they pass by. Bell said that while cases among humans in ...

So far, the disease has mostly affected chickens across the country, an impact which has caused the price of eggs to skyrocket worldwide. Now, however, the department says that they have recently ...

A plan to spend £3.5m to develop a 180,000-bird chicken farm has run into objections. The site at Barnes Farm in Rowton, near Waters Upton north of Telford, has an anaerobic digester that could ...

A second subtype of H5 bird flu, known as D1.1, was detected in dairy cattle and infected one worker in the US state of ...

Egg farms have invested millions into biosecurity, but their efforts have not been enough to contain an outbreak that began ...