The highly pathogenic avian flu strain is infecting animals and people on dairy and poultry farms, but mortality is rising ...

Avian influenza, or “bird flu,” is a disease caused by influenza A viruses that spread widely among wild birds, and can cause outbreaks in commercial and backyard poultry flocks. Though there ...

Avian influenza (AI) continues to kill large numbers of migratory birds in eastern Pennsylvania as state officials have looked to slow the virus through organized shooting efforts. The Game ...

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 ...

Malaysia has not recorded an increase in influenza cases and remains free of bird flu (avian influenza) among humans, ...

Scientists have detected a highly pathogenic type of avian influenza in Nevada dairy cattle, the U.S. Department of ...

The tools the US used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural ...

A rapidly-spreading H5N1 avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, has been devastating bird flocks and showing signs of ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

Avian influenza viruses pose a growing threat, with the potential to adapt to humans and trigger future pandemics, according to a new report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

Amy Barkley is a livestock specialist with the Southwest New York Dairy Livestock and Field Crops program and an expert for the avian influenza outbreak for Cornell. She also has her own poultry ...