Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

(WAVY) – Wildlife officials are keeping a close eye on the spread of avian influenza after nearly 300 birds were found dead along the North Carolina coast earlier this year — most of them ...

Dr Nadeem Shabir For now, the general public’s risk remains low. The CDC maintains that these are isolated cases of animal-to ...

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Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...

The number of blacklegged ticks have exploded in the past decade, seemingly getting worse by the year as Canadian seasons get ...

Illinois has reported its first human case of West Nile virus as county health departments across the Chicago area issue warnings for residents.

“Such a 'let-it-spread' strategy may identify small numbers of poultry infected by H5 influenza virus that do not develop ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

Since April 2024, there have been a total of 61 reported human cases of H5 bird flu reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

North Dakota has had 39 documented bird flu cases in domestic flocks since the spring of 2022, with more than 440,000 birds lost, according to state and federal data.