In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the middle of a puzzling case. The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was ...

Bird flu is now believed to be widespread in Massachusetts and is likely present even in places where there has not been a confirmed positive, state environmental and health officials said Wednesday.

There are about 40 million migratory aquatic waterfowl in North America, Osterholm says—which means there are plenty of potential bird-flu hosts, whose poop spreads disease. Read More ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

It also said the risk to the wider public "continues to be very low" and that bird-to-human transmission of this kind was rare. UKHSA routinely swabs people who have been in close contact with ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

The prehistoric origin story of modern birds has always gone something like this: 66 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, an asteroid between 10 to 15 kilometers wide smacked into what ...

The scarlett macaw (Ara Chloropterus) became extinct in the 18th and 19th centuries but now, according to the Rewilding Institute, it's making a comeback in its native forests. Commanders warned ...

The H5N1 Avian influenza is decimating bird populations around the world. More than 136 million birds have been affected in the US since the disease arrived in 2022. More than 5 million egg-laying ...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Europe’s Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) issued joint advice that warning of a higher risk of bird flu spreading to humans and increasing the risk of a ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...