Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks. The Wild Felid ...

A big cat sanctuary in Washington has temporarily closed ... Authorities are investigating how the big cats contracted bird flu, he added. Highly pathogenic strains of H5N1 influenza have been ...

Scientists and volunteers with the Olympic Cougar Project said they have the opportunity now to study bird flu in wild ...

Both cats that contracted the H5N1 virus lived in Washington County but contracted it in different ways, according to state ...

Find out where the first bird flu case in 2025 was found and learn how to protect your birds from getting the devastating ...

An Olalla farm is an example of the measures taken to protect flocks, pets and more from an ongoing bird flu outbreak.

"Cats (domestic and large felids) in particular can experience severe illness or death from infection with H5N1. Dogs can also contract H5N1, although they usually exhibit mild clinical signs and low ...

A cat from Washington County has been euthanized after becoming severely ill with bird flu that officials think it got from ...

The deaths prompted policy changes announced Friday by the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration, which focus on ...

Scott Applewhite) Meghan Davis of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health told the Washington Examiner that the scope of the bird flu epidemic ... This is big,” Davis said.

Big cats are also impacted ... other animals—died after being infected in a bird flu outbreak last month at the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington, an animal sanctuary in Washington ...