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

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 killings of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont last week, a state’s witness in California, and a pair of senior citizens in ...

Ever since the novel coronavirus reached the United States five years ago, it has unleashed punishing winter waves of illness ...

Otago Fish & Game said it was the first known major outbreak of the bacterial disease in the region, while in Timaru rescuers ...

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 ...

Dunedin (Monday, 27 January 2025) – The Dunedin City Council has identified Avian Botulism, a disease that causes paralysis in birds and often kills them, at the Waikouaiti wastewater treatment plant, ...

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

Botulism looks to be the cause at Washdyke and tests will rule out any exotic disease, the Department of Conservation says.