Washington State University will get $1.5 million to study respiratory diseases in livestock, like bird flu, in the Pacific Northwest and their potential spread to humans. Since 2021, the newest avian ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

One person had died from the disease. In early January, a backyard flock keeper hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana ...

You may have heard a lot about a certain flu making its way across the country. It’s not the stomach bug going around. It’s bird flu. The flu’s name is highly pathogenic avian flu, or HPAI. It’s been ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- A WSU laboratory is at the forefront of tracking some of the current animal disease outbreaks and keeping our food supply safe. The WSU Animal Diagnostic Disease Laboratory (WADDL) ...

Unlike the coronavirus, the H5N1 virus has been studied for years. Vaccines and treatments are available should they ever become necessary. By Apoorva Mandavilli Bird flu outbreaks among dairy cows in ...

The sight of a sick or dead bird at a feeder doesn’t evoke the same delight as a visit from a healthy, chirping songbird. Seeing diseased birds is often a source of concern, confusion and even guilt ...

The strain of bird flu sweeping across UK poultry farms could be the most contagious yet, according to one of the country’s ...

A teenager in British Columbia is in critical condition after being exposed to H5N1 bird flu. The source of the virus has not been determined. The teen is the first presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu ...