The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its ...

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health said officials discovered the city’s first case of bird flu in a sick snow goose ...

Large-scale mortality among snow geese has led the Pennsylvania Game Commission to declare Lehigh Valley the epicenter of a ...

H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, and additional cases have been reported in ...

A resurgence of the avian bird flu recently killed an estimated 5,000 snow geese in Northampton County in Eastern ...

California has also reported bird flu infections in cats fed raw milk or pet food. In one Los Angeles household, five cats got sick — and two died — after eating two kinds of raw pet food. Samples ...

Health authorities need to be concerned about bird flu, but the risk to the public is low. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges ...

A farm in Long Island, New York, is being forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks after health officials detected cases of bird flu.

A local raptor expert is concerned about what a suspected uptick in bird flu cases in waterfowl could mean for other birds higher up the food chain.

S uffolk County health officials announced that they found bird flu at the last remaining commercial duck farm on Long Island, as reported by Newsday. Crescent Duck Farm is having ...

The risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza is as high as its ever been in Pennsylvania, State Veterinarian Dr. Alex Hamberg told poultry stakeholders on Jan. 23.