If you have sick birds in your BACKYARD flock, please report them to WSDA’s Sick Bird Hotline at 1-800-606-3056. If your farm ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

H5N1 is already driving economic impacts. In the U.S., egg prices have spiked to record highs. The Trump administration has a strategy to deal with both the virus and high prices. That $1 billion plan ...

That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...

A historic case of bird flu has been identified in a sheep in northern England, marking the first such instance globally.

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...