The Hamburg count began in 1965, and the Bernville count was instituted in 1985. And it was also befitting that on Christmas ...

These highly-social songbirds are particularly at ... [+] risk from Trichomoniasis infections when fed from bird feeders. (Credit: Caroline Legg / CC BY 2.0) “We know so many of you love feeding ...

Dear Annie: I just finished reading the letter from “Caged Bird,” and my heart broke for her. The reason is because I lived ...

Bird flu was detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak started in 2022, officials announced on Friday. The positive case of the H5N1 strain of ...

Over the past year, bird flu has spread far beyond America's avian creatures. Largely concentrated among farm animals, it's also hit zoos, domestic pets and even people. The risk to public health ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

The recent bird flu outbreak is being regarded as the largest animal disease outbreak on record, raising concerns about its potential to spark a pandemic. (Video: Austin Meyer, Drea Cornejo ...

So far, there have been 66 human cases of bird flu reported in 10 states. In the nearly nine months since the first human case of bird flu was detected in the United States, the virus has ...

A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu), has died, health officials announced on Monday. The death was ...

More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America's egg ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can exchange genetic material. This is known as genetic shift,” Michael ...