The dangers of your pet getting bird flu include raw pet food, environmental exposure and more. Three experts explain how to ...

Birds in the United States can be affected by avian flu, also called H5N1 bird flu or avian influenza. But can it affect your ...

Where does our avian flu epidemic come from? Commercial, large-scale poultry farming and migrating birds squeezed into ...

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and ...

In prior bird flu outbreaks, there’ve been several documented cases of feline-to-feline spread, but ingestion seems to be the ...

We have been hearing a lot about avian influenza, or H5N1, and the price of eggs in the news recently. It got me thinking: ...

Enter wastewater surveillance — a tool public health officials used during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the ...

An outbreak of H5 avian influenza was confirmed by United States health agencies in mid-2024. The Centers for Disease Control ...

or any objects contaminated by bird droppings, Charles Bailey, MD, infectious disease physician at Providence Mission Hospital, told Health. Plus, wash your hands “after removing gloves and ...

In most cases there is low risk to songbirds who visit backyard feeders, but there are precautions to be safe.

Recent CDC findings show indoor cats contracted bird flu from dairy workers, highlighting new transmission pathways and preventive measures ...

Thus far, this strain of bird flu has been spread primarily due to contact with infected birds, their excrement, saliva, or feathers. Wild bird flocks are probably the main reservoir of the virus, ...