If you really want to feed wild birds, you need to have the feeder in an area that your cat or dog is not able to access.

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses were found in 38 people in CA from Sept. 30 to Dec. 24, 2024, including the first pediatric case in the US.

Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential ...

The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has received confirmation of the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a backyard chicken flock in Stutsman County from the North Dakota ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...

Emerging infectious diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza, African swine fever, and foot-and-mouth disease pose significant challenges to the ...

Avian influenza, which in Poland has infected over 6.5 million animals, is under control in Italy. This is stated by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, where the ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

As the spring progresses in the northern hemisphere, the number of reported highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...