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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 -- and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

Concerns about bird flu are growing among health officials weeks after the first person in the U.S. died from the virus, and as cases of bird flu grow among animals and humans. Minnesota has no ...

Across the United States, bird flu is no longer a concern only for dairy and poultry farms — it’s now knocking on the gates of zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, putting some of the nation’s ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (UPI) --This article was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for its public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. As more cases ...

The first case of bird flu on a farm in Pennsylvania in 2025 was detected on a poultry farm in Lehigh County on Monday, the state's Department of Agriculture announced. Lehigh County is roughly an ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As egg prices continue to soar across the country, there are new concerns about bird flu as a new strain was discovered at a duck farm. The different, rarer sub-type of the common ...

The CDC has been issuing advisories as bird flu spreads The blackout will prohibit external communications One person had died from bird flu The CDC has been issuing advisories as bird flu spreads ...

This incident follows a recent bird flu case at a commercial poultry plant in Georgia, highlighting the ongoing concern of the virus's spread. Bird flu continues to impact poultry populations ...

By Emily Anthes Federal officials who spent the last year grappling with a surge of bird flu infections in cows and people are now confronting a spate of new cases in cats, some of which have died ...

A number of bird flu cases have been reported in the Chicago area in recent weeks, leading to many questions about how quickly the virus is spreading and how worried residents should be.