A global outbreak of avian flu has reached Arizona, affecting animals and humans. Officials say the public health risk ...
The news comes in the midst of HPAI cases in a commercial poultry operation in Kent County, Del., plus one in Caroline County ...
The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...
The current strain, called Eurasian H5N1, has proved to be deadly for wild birds, killing bald eagles, great horned owls, Canadian geese, snow geese and other wild birds. The virus has been ...
For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...
More than 100 chickens, geese, ducks and other birds at the farm at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford have been culled after some of them tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu ...
According to the CDC, at least 66 people have been infected with bird flu since last year. Most have had direct contact with ...
The strain is known as the “Eurasian H5N1 strain.” The strain is unusually deadly for wild birds when compared with other strains of its kind, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department.