Health officials in Washington state report a resident has contracted bird flu, marking the first U.S. human case since ...

The CDC says bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses (H5N1) that usually spread between birds, not people. It occurs naturally among wild aquatic birds. It's very contagious among ...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

The CDC says bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses (H5N1) that usually spread between birds, not people. It occurs naturally among wild aquatic birds. It's very contagious among ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has sporadically ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year, ...

Over the past three years, bird flu — caused by the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus — has extended its reach around the U.S. and across many species. The virus arrived in wild birds, but it has now ...

Bird flu wasn’t on Tim Hanson’s mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. “You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food,” he said. “It was finely ground to a ...

More than 140 domestic cats in the country have been infected with bird flu since 2022. While the likelihood of your cat getting bird flu is rare, the recent increase in cats who've contracted the ...