Hawaii could become the eighth U.S. state to see human cases of bird flu, after the state's Department of Health issued a warning on Sunday to members of the public who attended a pet fair.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...

With its continued spread and mutations, veterinarians and virologists interviewed warn this outbreak could become a new pandemic.

This outbreak has decimated poultry flocks since 2022. Bird flu is so lethal in poultry that more than 160 million birds have been killed during this outbreak, driving egg prices sky high.

The bird flu virus is highly contagious and has triggered several outbreaks globally among the poultry community. While human infections remained rare, experts studying the virus have now warned ...

Few crises illustrate this more starkly than highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), a relentless ... and deploy rapid testing near outbreak zones. These measures are not just acts of global ...