Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns spoke with a doctor about bird flu and steps you can take to help prevent it. PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Cases of bird flu, or avian flu, are rising in parts of the country. The ...

Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to pet owners, federal regulators announced Friday. Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the outbreak began in January 2022. One person has been killed.

A new H5N1 strain has been spotted in cows and New York is temporarily closing live poultry markets, among other warning ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

For nearly 40 years, scientists have gathered here to track flu viruses in the bird population, hoping to catch early signs of potentially dangerous outbreaks.  This year, however, researchers ...

Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from the strain detected in all other herds to ...