According to a response to questions on bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture states that avian influenza A viruses can be either low pathogenic or highly pathogenic, Becker said.

Avian influenza is “evolving in ways we haven’t seen before,” says Martha Nelson, a computational biologist and staff scientist researching pathogen evolution at the National Institutes of ...

An outbreak of avian flu has been confirmed near Inverness. The Scottish government said the H5N1 virus had been detected at a small premises in Daviot, external, but there were no details on how ...

With H5N1 avian influenza spreading in poultry flocks, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is pushing a new plan: let the virus rip. Kennedy recently told Fox News that ...

Recurrent bouts of avian flu, fluctuating feed and energy costs, regulatory changes, and a global pandemic have wreaked havoc in the egg market, prompting a surge of interest in alternatives. And Eat ...

Visit the CDC’s Avian Influenza section for the latest on the situation. Symptoms of bird flu resemble typical flu symptoms. While bird flu is rare in humans, if you have flu symptoms and have had ...

An Antarctic skua, one of the birds hardest hit by avian flu in the region. Peter Prokosch via Flickr A deadly strain of H5N1, commonly known as avian flu, has been found in birds across the ...

The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of birds worldwide and increasingly spilling over into mammals, the ...

All but two of these cases contracted the avian flu through exposure to dairy herds, according to the outlet. The CDC reports that there have been a total of 70 confirmed cases of bird flu in ...

Avian flu outbreaks have been blamed for soaring egg prices thanks to an ongoing epidemic that has killed upwards of 150 million birds and wreaked havoc on the American poultry industry.

Three live bird markets in New Jersey, including one in Mercer County, have confirmed cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), according to state and federal agricultural authorities.

The discovery of silent H5N1 infections in unexpected populations, the emergence of new variants, and its potential to evolve into a human-to-human transmissible virus necessitates immediate and ...