The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

A virus that can cause a polio-like illness among children has been found in Bay Area wastewater as influenza cases spike.

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...

If you really want to feed wild birds, you need to have the feeder in an area that your cat or dog is not able to access.

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...