It’s the latest in a string of deaths and infections in and around Chicago. Outbreaks of the virus, also called H5N1 or avian flu, have decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds nationwide.

Avian influenza spreads in birds, cows and other animals, and it can sometimes spread to people. In the United States, there has been 68 total reported human cases and one death.

Avian flu is devastating bird populations along Chicago’s lakefront, with hundreds of dead waterfowl reported in recent days.

But once they are infected with avian flu, they start to suffer tremors and can't move. Officials say that, nationwide, since the H5N1 strain of bird flu reached the U.S. in 2022, more than 148 ...

Slater, a 7-year-old harbor seal, died of avian influenza on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Lincoln Park Zoo ...

Health Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo loses flamingo, seal to bird flu The zoo received the results of Teal, a Chilean Flamingo, and Slater, a Harbor Seal’s death and they confirm the cause as Avian ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa ...

The Department of Agriculture is considering a plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time, including ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...