Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds. Including ducks and chickens, 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized since H5N1 began spreading around the U.S. in 2022 ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death ...

2023. Bird flu spillover into mammals continues. Several human cases reported internationally. By February, more than 50 million chickens have been affected in the U.S., in what has become one of ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

Historically, bird flu used to result in severe symptoms with up to a 60 percent mortality rate. However, most recent human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have resulted in only mild symptoms.

A woman in Wyoming and a farm worker in Ohio marked the latest Americans hospitalized with bird flu, as the virus continues to disrupt the poultry and cattle industries. Since the summer, the U.S ...

Bird mites are so tiny they might be hard to spot at first glance. A mature mite is about 1/32 inch long – still visible to the naked eye . Some describe bird mites as walking pepper flakes.