While federal policy changes create uncertainty, the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health said this week said ...

Chicago Bird Collision Monitors/Provided Share Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago and into the northern ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Some Utahns have started to notice an alarming number of dead birds at The Great ... which confirmed the small outbreak among one wild species of waterfowl.

The H5N1 strain has spread from wild birds to commercial and backyard poultry flocks as well as mammals, including dairy cattle and pets, raising concerns about how the virus might be mutating.

The birds have been in an environmental updraft since the early 2000s, when the U.S. government took them off its endangered ...

An American crodocile, certainly a female, has likely been around Sanibel island, Florida for several years. Another arrived ...

HPAI is an extremely contagious and frequently deadly respiratory disease for domestic birds; it can kill entire flocks in a matter of days. One strain, H5N1, has spread from wild birds to ... flu ...

The nationwide spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, also known as avian or bird flu, has many in Illinois concerned about livestock, pets, wildlife, food safety and public health.

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk of an outbreak of the bird flu in humans is low, although Illinois’ health department is preparing for the possibility. On Friday, ...