Spotify Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and ...

Where has bird flu been reported in Illinois? Are my pets at risk? Should I still be eating eggs? Here’s what to know about the avian flu outbreak.

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...

Many of the birds, he said, were frozen to the ice. The city of Taunton announced on Sunday that state departments were assisting Taunton Police and Taunton Board of Health in the investigation ...

A decade after declaring Northern Goshawk or ‘baaj’, closely associated with Guru Gobind Singh, as the state bird of Punjab, the government has finally come to terms with the fact that it has ...

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Meanwhile, on Jan. 6, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first human death from bird flu in the U.S., in Louisiana. Kimberly Dodd, dean of Michigan State University ...

Workers at the farm bagged up the dead birds and took them to Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine in East Lansing, where the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory conducted tests ...

It’s advice he and other design experts hope the Illinois Flag Commission will take to heart as it forges ahead with the contest to pick a new flag to represent the state. Participants can also ...

A Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Illinois have died of bird flu, officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A pair of “amazing animals” — a harbor seal and a ...

After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United ... The vast majority are in California, which declared a state of emergency last month. That same month, the USDA began a national ...

ILLINOIS – The movement among Illinois counties to separate from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state continues to grow. Those for separating point to things like high taxes and a ...