A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...
In the past three years, scientists have documented a slow but steady increase in the number of Pacific Northwest species that are dying from avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. Wild birds ...
25,669 Northern Gannets in Canada. 134 harbor and gray seals along the coast of Maine. 21 California Condors in the western U.S. “It’s easier to treat the numbers as numbers and not think too hard ...
H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different ...
The warning comes from Institute Pasteur, whose respiratory-infection experts say that currently circulating bird-flu viruses ...
After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.
BROOKFIELD, Ill. — Millions of chickens at poultry farms have already become ill, died or been culled due to a highly contagious avian flu outbreak. Raptors and birds of prey, including bald eagles, ...
Out on his farm in Dundee Township, Cliff McConville sees geese landing in the fields where his turkeys and chickens graze. It’s a sight that often unnerves poultry producers, as migratory waterfowl ...
25,669 Northern Gannets in Canada. 134 harbor and gray seals along the coast of Maine. 21 California Condors in the western U.S. “It’s easier to treat the numbers as numbers and not think too hard ...
The recent news of bird flu has led to increased caution when it comes to handling poultry. But there are some ways that you ...