Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a viral infection that primarily affects birds but can occasionally infect humans. In recent years, the threat of avian influenza has garnered attention ...

More than 126,800 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including thousands of new infections uncovered in recent months in New York parks, commercial flocks and ...

Thousands of new bird flu cases have emerged in recent months among New York flocks, including in parks and even backyard coops. The spread set off a fresh round of public health alerts among ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Rural residents’ closer contact with livestock and wild game that can carry bird flu make them more vulnerable to infection from the potentially fatal disease, at the ...

Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK. The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Bird flu, or avian influenza, has spread far beyond commercial and backyard poultry flocks, and is now affecting other animals like cows and humans.

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THAT SAFEWAY HAD SOMEWHAT RESTOCKED BY THIS MORNING AND PUT UP A SIGN TELLING CUSTOMERS EGG SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS ARE DUE TO RECENT OUTBREAKS OF AVIAN INFLUENZA THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. AT THE GIANT ...

There have been 14 recorded cases of avian influenza among humans in Washington, but none in Clark County. Local health officials still consider the risk to the general public to be low. State and ...

The most recent state to have its poultry operations hit with bird flu: Georgia. The Georgia Department of Agriculture, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, confirmed on Friday ...