While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

New York State has ordered live bird markets in NYC, Long Island and Westchester to shut down after inspections lead to the discovery of seven cases of bird flu in poultry.

The first known human death from bird flu occurred in January in Louisiana, according to the CDC. None of the 70 people infected to date were from New York.

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 ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

More than 30 mammals in New York have also been found to have avian flu as of January, including red foxes, raccoons, skunks, opossums, a bobcat, a gray squirrel and a muskrat, according to the ...

The H5N1 bird flu has been spreading widely among wild birds, poultry and other animals around the world for several years, and starting early last year became a problem in people and cows in the ...

Although bird flu is suspected as the cause of many coastal New Jersey nests emptying out, researchers have only been able to recover some of the dead falcons’ carcasses, she said, noting that ...

She recently released a paper reviewing bird flu in infections in cats between 2004 and 2024. Barn cats that died after drinking raw milk were one of the first signs that dairy cows were becoming ...

Updated: May 19, 2025 / 09:44 AM CDT Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped.