Growing up in rural Indiana, I had more animal friends than human ones. I raised ducks and geese, and enjoyed my time ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to ...

Due to rising bird flu infections across the United States, an egg shortage has left many Americans scrambling. One solution: renting chickens. A new CDC study shows some Americans, including farm ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled H5, ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States. The patient had been exposed to sick and dead birds in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the first death in the United States linked to H5N1 bird flu. The patient, who was from Louisiana ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first U.S. death linked to avian influenza. A Louisiana resident hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms succumbed to ...

The spread set off a fresh round of public health alerts among state ... of a small number of avian influenza A virus infections in people in Southeast Asia, CDC says. Cooking poultry and eggs ...

During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the fall and early winter, possibly due to the migration patterns of wild ...