Three state agencies remain on alert after a third possible case of avian influenza was found in a wild bird, this time in an ...

A Koloa Maoli (Hawaiian duck) was found sick on Nov. 26 at the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hanalei National Wildlife ...

"This strain of HPAI has the potential to cause large-scale die-offs in wild bird populations as we progress into winter," ...

LINWOOD, Kan. (KCTV) - The highly contagious bird flu is surging across the Kansas City metro - and wildlife officials warn ...

A study at Iowa State University is seeking to determine whether bird flu, found in cows' milk, can also show up in other ...

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become ...

After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal species became urgent. After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal ...

On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after observing high mortality rates in the elephant seal population. The cause of ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the ...

Cases of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, are the highest they’ve been in almost a decade. Between September 6 and November 14, 1,443 avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) viruses were detected in wild ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and ...