Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...

Chris Herr, executive vice president of PennAG, an agriculture trade organization, said these preventive measures are ...

"Because of our aggressive approach to testing and quarantine plans, we successfully reduced the threat of avian flu and ...

Farmers, animal rescues and zookeepers in Rhode Island are taking precautions to protect animals, their workers and the ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

The spread of avian influenza (HPAI) has also impacted the nationwide supply of poultry products, including eggs. Experts ...

More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of ...

Humans infected with bird flu display a wide range of symptoms, from pneumonia requiring hospitalization to no symptoms at ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo announced the death of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo as a result of the Avian Influenza, a highly pathogenic disease in free-ranging waterfowls.

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...

Transmission has largely been documented in poultry. While hummingbirds are likely safe, bird feeders could attract infected ...