Alberta Health Services has ordered the closure of Butterfield Acres Petting Farm after nine cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) were confirmed in poultry at the northwest Calgary ...

A popular petting zoo just outside northwest Calgary limits remains closed after positive cases of avian flu were reported among its animals earlier this month. And humans who visited the farm amid ...

A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu, marking the first human case in the U.S. in nine months, and ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

Health officials in Washington state said a resident has contracted bird flu, marking the first human case in the U.S. since ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.

After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Bird flu is ...

After a summer lull in U.S. cases of avian influenza in both poultry and dairy cattle—and no human infections reported in the country since February—the virus is back. The currently circulating bird ...

MADISON – Wisconsin has experienced several outbreaks of avian influenza this fall as wild birds have begun their migration out of the state for the winter. The virus is highly contagious for birds, ...