It was bird poop. Everyone had finished their supply of drinking water, and no one had hand sanitizer in their backpack. Two days later she had a cough, high fever, chills, and muscle aches. She ...

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

The rule requires regulated companies to re-analyze their food safety plans when FDA determines it’s necessary, which is the case with the known transmission with bird flu for raw food products.

Chickens and turkeys at commercial poultry operations likely became infected with bird flu through contact with migrating ...

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.

In the US state of Nevada, a newly identified H5N1 bird flu strain, D1.1, has been found in six dairy herds. Scientists warn ...

Thinking about backyard chickens as egg prices soar? Think hard, especially in light of the bird flu outbreak.

This incident follows a recent bird flu case at a commercial poultry plant in Georgia, highlighting the ongoing concern of the virus's spread. Bird flu continues to impact poultry populations ...

There is no evidence of bird flu spreading from person-to-person in the U.S., health experts say. The CDC said in an update on Jan. 6, 2025, that “no person-to-person transmission…has been identified, ...

Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, according to a statement from zoo officials on Wednesday. It also announced that ...

and I recently wondered if I might be exposing myself to the new bird flu. Is there any information about this possibility? Any possible transmission of the virus might have occurred to other bird ...