Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...

The detection of bird flu in a sheep is another sign that the H5N1 virus is adapting to hop to new hosts ...

By most indications, the avian influenza outbreak that has washed over U.S. farms is at an ebb. Experts don’t seem hopeful, ...

For the past couple months, egg prices have jumped in Illinois and around the country, but a Midwestern farm organization is ...

Outbreaks of avian influenza, also known as the H5N1 virus, have led to the killing of millions of turkeys, chickens and ...

Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain's ...

The Stearns County detection is the first in a Minnesota dairy herd so far this year. The same 620-cow herd also tested ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

The H5N1 virus was detected in a single animal in Yorkshire, the British government said on Monday. It added that the risk to humans remained very low.

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

If you or someone you know found groups of dead birds in an area, contact Mower County Public Health at 507-437-9701.

This is the first time that the avian flu virus has been reported in a sheep, but it has been detected in livestock in other ...