Avian H5N1 took a big leap about four years ago. Previously the virus, first detected in the mid-1990s, would tear through domesticated poultry, killing off flocks in days. It occasionally jumped to ...

The “bird flu” recently has been found in the eastern U.S., particularly North Carolina. This won’t lead to a new pandemic -- at least not for humans -- but it does have the U.S. Department of ...

Feeding wild birds is a popular hobby globally, but it presents invisible disease risks to the very birds that we are feeding — but there are ways to safeguard their health. Adult male European ...