bird flu

A pair of sick swans at Boston’s Charles River Esplanade were euthanized this week, and five baby swans were later taken to a wildlife center to be evaluated, according to the city.

A pair of sick swans at Boston’s Charles River Esplanade were euthanized this week, and five baby swans were later taken to a wildlife center to be evaluated, according to the city. The sick swans had avian flu, the city said, which has been blamed for other bird kills around the country this year. The Charles River Esplanade cases...

A new strain of avian flu could become a major issue that takes years to recover from.

“You just want to beat your head against the wall,” one farmer said of the Facebook groups in which people incorrectly insist the flu is fake or, maybe, a bioweapon.

Bird flu is killing an alarming number of bald eagles and other wild birds, with many sick birds arriving at rehabilitation centers unsteady on their talons and unable to fly.

A highly contagious strain of avian flu has been detected in a human for the first time in the U.S.

A highly contagious strain of avian flu that has likely killed hundreds of birds and spread across more than two dozen states has been detected in a human for the first time in the U.S., officials said Thursday.

Vermont is the latest state to confirm the presence of a highly-spreadable form of bird flu now sweeping the nation. And the discovery was made in an iconic bird species — the bald eagle. “It’s terribly distressing,” nature lover Mara Coven of Burlington said after hearing three sick bald eagles have recently died in Vermont from the disease known as…

With the virus in Vermont, the state veterinarian wants farmers and backyard chicken raisers here to limit contact between their flocks and wild birds, to quarantine domesticated birds coming in from other farms, and to make sure boots and equipment aren’t contaminated with bird droppings — a common way influenza spreads between animals.

The spread of a bird flu that is deadly to poultry raises the grisly question of how farms manage to quickly kill and dispose of millions of chickens and turkeys.

As Maine’s Maple Weekend 2022 approaches, officials there are urging people to be aware of avian flu. The H5N1 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has appeared with increasing prevalence in the state since February as cases of the virus spike nationwide. “There are going to be thousands and thousands of us heading out to farms to enjoy...

Ahead of a weekend when many people visit Maine farms, officials are urging people to be aware of avian flu.

State agriculture officials say the confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm will force the killing of more than 5 million chickens

A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in Michigan in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds in Kalamazoo County, federal authorities said Thursday.

A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected for the first time in Maine, federal officials said Sunday. State officials quarantined the property in Knox County and the backyard flock will be eliminated to prevent the spread of the disease, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The virus is often spread to...

The turkey infections are the first confirmation of highly pathogenic bird flu in commercial poultry in the U.S. since 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has said.

Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion

A bird flu outbreak has killed thousands of migratory cranes in Israel according to officials, making it the deadliest wildlife disaster in the country’s history

Farmers have also been forced to slaughter nearly half a million chickens as authorities try to contain what they say is the deadliest wildlife disaster in the nation’s history

The Chinese government says a 41-year-old man has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but that the risk of large-scale spread is low