The type of bird flu that’s currently circulating is a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)—a disease that can seriously sicken wild and domestic birds, posing a major threat to the ...

Waterfowl are natural carriers of avian influenza viruses and play a significant role in spreading HPAI. The bird flu outbreak, which continues to spread across the U.S. and the Eastern Shore of ...

But the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it was the first time that H5N9 had been found in American poultry sick with "highly pathogenic avian influenza," meaning it caused severe disease.

Nationwide, Brown said, the flu has struck millions of wild birds, 145 million domestic birds, and 943 herds of dairy cattle. The current strain of the avian influenza H5N1 virus arrived in the ...

Egg restrictions, shortages and record-high prices are ruffling feathers at supermarkets across the U.S. as a deadly strain of avian flu continues to decimate the country's poultry flocks.

MANSFIELD, Ohio -- With 67 human cases of avian flu now confirmed in the United States, one of them fatal, many Americans are beginning to worry that 2025 will be 2020 all over again. I’m not a ...