The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...

Person-to-person transmission of bird flu has historically been reported in isolated cases involving one to two individuals, but not during the ongoing outbreak in the U.S. Avian flu does not ...

Before the outbreak, the flock typically numbered more than 315 million. Since the current bird flu outbreak began, more than 168 million birds have been slaughtered, most of them egg-laying chickens.

An ongoing bird flu outbreak has killed nearly 170 million chickens, turkeys and other birds since 2022 and infected nearly 1,000 U.S. dairy herds since early 2024. Last year, 70 people contracted ...

Since the current bird flu outbreak began, more than 168 million birds have been slaughtered, most of them egg-laying chickens. Any time a bird gets sick, the entire flock is killed to help keep ...