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Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way ...
In a report to the Natural Resources Board, DNR officials said there has been an uptick in reports of bird deaths since ...
An international team of researchers led by Professor Huaijun Zhou from the UC Davis Department of Animal Science has created ...
The most common way to detect bird flu involves swabbing potentially contaminated sites and sequencing the DNA that’s been ...
It’s been ten years since the first major outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S.  And the executive ...
Experts fear these layoffs will hurt the country's ability to handle diseases like avian flu. Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, said the FDA’s veterinary ...
Last year, 73,169 birds were depopulated in Wisconsin due to the virus. While bird flu has been sweeping through poultry flocks across the U.S. this year, Wisconsin recorded the disease in just four ...
Head of state veterinary lab says cuts to federal employees will disrupt data sharing, coordinated approach to fighting bird ...
So far this year, 1.5 million Delmarva chickens have been killed to stop the spread of bird flu, according to the Delmarva ...
Bird flu has been found in seals at one of England's best-known colonies for the second time in recent months, scientists have said. The virus has been detected in 15 dead seals during recent ...
Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks unchecked. Scientists say that’s risky because it gives the virus more opportunities to replicate, increasing the chance it ...
Ian Brown, group leader of avian virology at the Pirbright Institute in the U.K., asked us. “That doesn’t feel terribly logical.” Letting bird flu run through poultry flocks is “not ...