Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already ...

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, more commonly known as H5N1 or bird flu, claimed its first human victim in the United States earlier this month. In the past year, it's resulted in the deaths of ...

A UC Davis veterinary professor explains how bird flu is transmitted, why it’s an “insane outbreak” and the worst-case ...

Respiratory illnesses are spreading across the country. Wastewater testing is being used to help identify what viruses are ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

A subtype of influenza that is likely to be bird flu has been detected in three Arizona cities according to wastewater sampling. The FDA has begun testing cheese for bird flu as human cases of the ...

The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture Animal Industry Division is again urging commercial poultry operations and backyard bird owners to increase biosecurity measures to protect their flocks from ...

As more cases of bird flu emerge across the country, public health leaders in New York City are watching warily -- and making ...

Yolo County officials announced Thursday that bird flu​ was detected in a backyard poultry flock, making it the first detection of bird flu in poultry in the county.

Bird flu outbreaks in Texas wildlife have been spotted, but human health risk remains low. On Jan. 9, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department confirmed that ducks found in the Austin area tested ...

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture on Thursday reported two cases of bird flu in the state, the first cases this year.