With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

After a different strain of bird flu was recently found in cattle for the first time, experts reveal what this means in our fight against the virus.

Avian influenza, or “bird flu,” is a disease caused by influenza A viruses that spread widely among wild birds, and can cause outbreaks in commercial and backyard poultry flocks. Though there ...

A new study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that bird flu has silently spread from ...

CDC finds H5 bird flu antibodies in 3 veterinary practitioners, highlighting need for enhanced surveillance and safety protocols.

The report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in dairy herds is spreading undetected in cows, and the spillover into ...

Flu deaths have surpassed COVID-19 in California for the first time since the pandemic, with concerns over low vaccination rates and a likely severe flu season.

A CDC study has found H5N1 bird flu antibodies in veterinarians who had no symptoms and no knowledge they had been working ...

Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, ...

How does bird flu spread? Can people get bird flu? Bird flu can infect birds as well as mammals, including pigs, cattle and ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 veterinarians ...

While a pandemic is not inevitable, the spread of the bird flu virus, also known as H5N1, has surpassed worrisome milestones ...