FALMOUTH, Maine — Many Mainers love their feathered friends, often welcoming wild birds to their backyards with birdseed and ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading ...

A new variant of the H5N1 bird flu — the same one that led to the death of a Louisiana man — has for first the first time been found in infected U.S. dairy cattle.

The newer strain had been seen before in more than a dozen people exposed to poultry, but this is the first time an infection ...

The study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention echoes two smaller ones that detected evidence ...

Dead wild birds recently sampled across several Lower Peninsula counties are suspected to be positive for bird flu.

Researchers have a new hope for preventing severe illness from the bird flu after finding a groundbreaking antibody treatment.

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been confirmed in multiple parts of our region, and beyond. We're digging into the facts on this flu, and how some farmers in Pennsylvania are trying to keep ...

This version of the virus is circulating broadly in wild birds and is different from the virus that has been causing dairy ...

The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S, Department of Agriculture show the continued devastating effects of bird flu outbreaks across the United ...

In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New York Times reporter who covers infectious diseases, explains why we ...