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

Washington State University will get $1.5 million to study respiratory diseases in livestock, like bird flu, in the Pacific Northwest and their potential spread to humans. Since 2021, the newest avian ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- A WSU laboratory is at the forefront of tracking some of the current animal disease outbreaks and keeping our food supply safe. The WSU Animal Diagnostic Disease Laboratory (WADDL) ...

You may have heard a lot about a certain flu making its way across the country. It’s not the stomach bug going around. It’s bird flu. The flu’s name is highly pathogenic avian flu, or HPAI. It’s been ...

Unlike the coronavirus, the H5N1 virus has been studied for years. Vaccines and treatments are available should they ever become necessary. By Apoorva Mandavilli Bird flu outbreaks among dairy cows in ...

Gottlieb is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA commissioner. McClellan is director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy and former FDA commissioner and ...

The strain of bird flu sweeping across UK poultry farms could be the most contagious yet, according to one of the country’s ...

The sight of a sick or dead bird at a feeder doesn’t evoke the same delight as a visit from a healthy, chirping songbird. Seeing diseased birds is often a source of concern, confusion and even guilt ...

The Colorado Department of Agriculture is warning poultry owners after a new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza — or bird flu — was confirmed in a backyard flock in Weld County. Of the Weld ...

More outbreaks could mean fewer turkeys available at Christmas with risk of higher prices. Smaller birds may be produced in ...