For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Decreased milk production, death, and early removal from a single herd of adult dairy cows infected with the H5N1 strain of ...

The Veterinary officers in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region have destroyed over 500 affected chickens in a poultry farm at Abor to prevent the spread of avian influenza in the area. The move, ...

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

Several local factors—including the minimum temperature reached in autumn, the water level in lakes and ponds in winter, and ...

Canada does not currently have a bird flu vaccine, but research is underway at the University of Guelph to try and create an ...

Spain has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a fattening turkey farm in the southwestern region of ...

Spain has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a fattening turkey farm in the southwestern region of ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is highly infectious in birds and usually fatal. While it doesn't spread to humans nearly as much, it has a high fatality rate.

When a chicken has avian flu, it’s not that hard to tell. The incubation period is relatively short, and when they get sick, they get really sick, and can even drop dead, seemingly out of nowhere.

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa are building a sanctuary for bald eagles found sick and injured across a large swath ...