In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

Avian flu killed or led to the deaths of 470 domestic birds at a live bird market in Onondaga County in March, according to ...

“Such a 'let-it-spread' strategy may identify small numbers of poultry infected by H5 influenza virus that do not develop ...

If it does, she said: "This will make COVID look like a walk in the park." The mortality rate appears to be higher for H5N1 avian flu than it was for coronavirus, Rasmussen said.

The CDC also provides guidance on what symptoms of bird flu in humans may look like. Though signs and symptoms vary, eye redness is a predominant symptom among recent U.S. cases of bird flu infection.

In past outbreaks, bird flu has often been deadly in people. Dr. Kay Russo: If you look at cases worldwide of H5 influenza, the mortality rate's fifty per cent.

In 2019, chickens on its farms produced just over 17 billion eggs, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the state’s flocks, like those elsewhere in the U.S., have been devastated by ...

But the state’s flocks, like those elsewhere in the U.S., have been devastated by avian flu, leading to higher egg prices and some shortages.

There currently isn’t any person to person spread of the virus, according to the CDC. When pets contract bird flu, it can look like a neurologic disease, similar to rabies.

But what has been the toll on wild birds? More than 170 species of North American wild birds – including ducks, geese, gulls, owls, eagles and others – have been infected with bird flu.

A recent bird flu outbreak among migratory eared grebes in Utah killed between 15,000 and 25,000 birds near Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said in early February.

Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.