Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, ...

Bird flu continues to pose a low risk to the general public according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is rare for humans to get bird flu and currently, most cases of bird flu ...

We explore whether you should be worried. By David Leonhardt By now, you’ve probably seen some alarming headlines about bird flu, and you may be wondering how worried you should be. I understand ...

Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which health officials ...

She speaks English and a little French. As the bird flu situation develops in the U.S., scientists told Newsweek the virus could become a pandemic--depending on what happens next. Right now ...

Ellen Duysen said she would never discourage anyone interested in starting a flock of backyard chicken. In fact, she recently ...

You’ll hear Lauren say it’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s the basic shape of it. But the bird flu is actually ... but as Lauren explained, different parts of the market ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...

WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Cole explained that cats can be exposed to avian flu through contact with infected birds or backyard poultry. He says another way cats can potentially ...

This is partly because two or more flu varieties ... is that people can take basic measures to slow down the evolution of H5N1 and potentially reduce the lethality of avian influenza should ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...