Local hospitals are now being urged by the CDC to be on the lookout for avian influenza among patients. When children are ...

Bird watchers and ornithologists, (scientists specialising in the branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds), have ...

Ohio is leading the nation with bird flu cases in poultry. What does this mean for egg prices, and can you raise your own ...

The fear of another pandemic has resulted in the culling of millions of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and now ostriches. But some ...

The humble egg, one of nature’s perfect foods, a self-packaged, relatively inexpensive source of protein that can serve as a ...

The widening U.S. bird flu outbreak has made its way to Maryland, which has counted two cases on commercial poultry farms — ...

Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producing state. Last week, bird flu was found for the first time in a commercial ...

As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on ...

Earlier avian flu outbreaks have proven especially deadly ... More severe cases can cause pneumonia, organ damage, septic shock and death. It’s not clear how long people are contagious, but ...

Avian or bird flu is a respiratory disease that spreads ... or more severe illness such as pneumonia and organ failure that can lead to death. So far, N.C. has had no reported cases of human ...