The active and ongoing global spread of avian influenza virus has impacted more than 14 million birds in Canada and 160 ...

Bird flu should no longer be considered solely an avian virus due to the growing spread of the disease in mammals, a leading ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

If you have sick birds in your BACKYARD flock, please report them to WSDA’s Sick Bird Hotline at 1-800-606-3056. If your farm ...

The U.S. reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to ...

Richard Peabody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at the UK Health Security Agency, has warned that bird flu has ...

The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of ...

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...