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

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 global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, ...

H5N1 is already driving economic impacts. In the U.S., egg prices have spiked to record highs. The Trump administration has a strategy to deal with both the virus and high prices. That $1 billion plan ...

That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...

A historic case of bird flu has been identified in a sheep in northern England, marking the first such instance globally.