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Phoebe is the beloved rabbit of Stephanie Cooper. Spring has sprung. Are you spending more time outside with your favorite, four-legged friends? Does Opening Day for the Reds have you ready to ...
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say. By Apoorva Mandavilli Robert F.
US bird populations continue alarming decline 2025 State of the Birds Report calls for urgent conservation action Date: March 13, 2025 Source: Cornell University Summary: The 2025 U. S. State of ...
Bird flu has spread widely in poultry, causing egg shortages. Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including humans. H5N1 does not currently have the ability to spread human to ...
The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...
These are among 42 U.S. bird species that have been placed on “red alert” by the conservation initiative Road to Recovery—and included in State of the Birds 2025, a new report released by a ...
Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.
Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...
Their findings highlight both shared and unique aspects of vocal motor control in the birds. Whereas zebra finches produce rigid, structured songs, budgerigars exhibit a highly flexible vocal ...
"It’s dangerous for human beings to vaccinate the birds," the health secretary said John Parra/Getty; Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the worsening avian flu crisis, saying vaccinating ...
Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...