Want to know what birdwatchers get for Christmas? Bird books, bird puzzles and bird games, of course. This year Mark and I exchanged Christmas presents in person with our sons and their families and ...

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 ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting whether a virus will ...

A revolutionary peracetic acid technology could provide poultry producers with a powerful new tool to combat deadly pathogens like salmonella and avian influenza. Trials conducted by Aga2Tech, with ...

While the general risk to human health is still considered low, according to the CDC, bird flu now looms large in headlines that identify it as a potential future pandemic. Here to tell us more ...

Influenza A(H5N1) predominately affects wild birds and poultry. Credit: Pordee_Aomboon via Shutterstock. With cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) continuing to rise among cattle and humans in the US, ...

Winter is normally a quiet time for Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a lull between fall and spring migration seasons, when volunteers receive fewer calls for rescues. Not this year. “We have a phone ...

A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the potential for more human H5N1 infections. While the patient was recently discharged ...

There is no risk to human health from a bird flu outbreak in Angus, Scotland's chief veterinary officer has said. Sheila Voas said the public did not need to be concerned and that precautions were ...

A child in San Francisco who had red eyes and a fever had a probable case of H5N1 bird flu, according to the city’s Department of Public Health. The case was caught by routine surveillance.