Does avian influenza affect wild birds? Find out if you need to take down bird feeders. Plus learn the risk to backyard ...

Some of the issues: In March 2017, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N9 virus was detected in two commercial chicken breeder flocks in the United States. This North ...

In this opinion piece, Beth Bechdol, deputy director-general at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

A team has published a comprehensive map of chicken gene regulation, analyzing over 100 breeds and 28 tissues. This atlas ...

Also known as meat chicks, broilers eventually grow into the chickens Islanders buy at grocery stores and that some raise in ...

The world is facing an intensifying battle against high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI), as the latest data from the ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed a case of highly ...

New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Richard A. Ball today alerted consumers with pets to the ...

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the United States and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over ...

Apr. 4, 2025 — Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce viral transmission. Researchers have now used a ...

A Victorian child has tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza after returning to ... spreading through animals and some people in the United States, with 70 cases recorded during the past year ...