Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, continues to be detected in wild birds across much of Washington.

According to a new study, an evolutionary shift around 2020 helped the bird flu virus adapt better to wild birds.

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

The Washington State Department of Health announced Nov. 14 that a state resident hospitalized earlier this month is the first human to have the H5N5 strain of bird flu. The virus was previously ...

We typically don’t see avian influenza until January or February,”says Rebecca Eifert Joniskan, president of the Indiana ...

Bird flu hasn’t gone anywhere, and it’s still sickening Americans. Health officials in Washington have confirmed that a ...

On November 13, Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms ...

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After a quiet summer, bird flu is on the move again, and experts say it poses an escalating threat. While the virus doesn’t appear capable of spreading from human to human, it has killed people ...

Health officials in Washington state say they have identified the nation’s first human case of bird flu since February, ...

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