As Easter approaches, shoppers may notice a higher price tag on a holiday essential — eggs. The average price for a dozen ...

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

Avian influenza – which has devastated poultry flocks, wildlife populations and increasingly poses a public health risk – has now been confirmed in wild bobcats in New York state.

These ticks found in Georgia can spread illnesses that could cause stomach pain, Lyme disease, fevers, muscle aches and other ...

Ten authors, including Anissa Gray, John M. Williams and Barbara Tucker, are in the running for Georgia's prestigious Townsend Prize in 2025.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. "Holy cow," says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University ...

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

Everybody wants to blame their allergies on all that yellow dust, but doctors say that pollen isn’t the culprit.

Just four cases of bird flu in backyard flocks have been confirmed in recent months in Nebraska, including flocks in Dawson and Kearney counties. But even if cases rise, bird flu is unlikely to be ...