As fireworks light up the skies this Independence Day, Collette Lauzau of Audubon Florida, urges beachgoers to be mindful of ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is drafting a national poultry vaccination plan to combat bird flu, aiming to protect ...

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) considers a bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm in Brazil as "resolved," a ...

Another batch of 900 arrived last week and some 900 more will soon make their way to the roughly 140-acre farm in Aquebogue, ...

As prices skyrocketed, and egg giant Cal-Maine raked in record profits, the company was hit by one of the biggest egg thefts ...

A fourth commercial farm in Maricopa County has tested positive for bird flu. The virus was detected during routine surveillance, before any birds showed symptoms, the Arizona Department of ...

H5N1 bird flu is capable of spreading through the air, a new animal study from the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has found. H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...

Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state Agriculture Secretariat on Friday ruled out another suspected bird flu case at a commercial chicken farm in the town of Teutonia, after laboratory test results ...

Bird flu vaccines were off the table. “The recent outbreak of avian flu at our westside farms was a tragedy that did not have to happen,” Hickman says in his post.

This brings the total number of recently reported bird flu cases in Brazil to five, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. The first case was recorded on May 16 at a farm in the southern state ...