Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with at least two severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

(CNN) — Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada ...

MCDONALD, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — The price hikes on eggs right now are due, in part, to bird flu wiping out chickens on farms. One Pittsburgh-area farm is taking extra precautions to protect its ...

Started back in 2022, the avian flu outbreak that has been increasing egg prices and even killing non-bird animals isn't expected to slow down soon. "It's the longest, largest outbreak of bird flu ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Bird flu is a global challenge that has already resulted in the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry—and has spread to mammalian species, including dairy cows in the U.S. The H5N1 strain ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

It also said the risk to the wider public "continues to be very low" and that bird-to-human transmission of this kind was rare. UKHSA routinely swabs people who have been in close contact with ...