A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

It might be Valentine’s Day – but this weekend is for more than just love birds. The Great Backyard Bird Count is back. Between Feb. 14 and 17, the event invites nature enthusiasts around ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? All this raises the question: If bird flu is killing animals right and left, and has killed at least one human, should we be worried?

After a Long Island farm was forced to euthanize 99,000 birds due to a bird flu outbreak, the impact of the virus continues to grow nationwide. More than 130 million birds have been infected ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Until now, all 957 bird flu infections among dairy cow herds had been caused by the same strain of the virus. Experts are urging containment so that it doesn't spread to other states. IE 11 is not ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds ...

Initial signs included increased duck mortality, prompting state officials to quarantine the farm and cull nearly 119,000 birds. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 ...

As the bird flu outbreak affecting poultry, dairy cows and humans in the U.S. continues to make headlines, here’s what to know about the situation as of January 23. The U.S. reported its first ...

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...