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 ...

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 ...

A farm in California where the new H5N9 strain was detected had to kill 119,000 birds after the more common H5N1 strain had been detected earlier. In New York, a farm on Long Island culled 100,000 ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany’s Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird’s herbivorous nature. The fossil was originally unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite ...

Dallas police said a 27-year-old man found in the Red Bird area with a gunshot wound died from his injuries. According to a news release from Dallas police, at about 7:35 p.m. Sunday, Dallas ...

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 ...

Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person ...

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 ...

The Crescent Duck Farm on Long Island’s north fork is 117 years old, the last of the island ... As the RiverheadLocal reported this week, a bird-flu outbreak had forced Crescent to shut ...

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