After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal ...

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza, a type of "bird flu," has been detected in three counties, according to the Indiana DNR in a statement issued on Friday, Oct. 17.

Researchers discovered that avian influenza (H5N1) can survive in raw milk cheese made from contaminated milk, even after the ...

Alberta Health Services has confirmed 12 people have been referred for testing and all “symptomatic workers” at Butterfield ...

State agencies are on high alert after a sick duck was found on the UH Manoa campus and preliminary testing revealed an ...

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped appearing. Has the search for cases been ...

A bird flu outbreak at Cold Spring Egg Farm in Palmyra will force the disposal of three million chickens. Residents say they fear overwhelming odors and possible health impacts from composting so many ...

Bird flu has been confirmed at a farm in Devon, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. Defra said the case had occurred in poultry at a property near Exminster on ...

Another case of avian influenza (bird flu) has been detected in Arizona. This time, it involves poultry at a commercial farm in Maricopa County. PHOENIX - Officials with the Arizona Department of ...

An ABC News exclusive from Rotterdam where the virus was created. ROTTERDAM, Holland Jan. 20, 2012— -- It is the stuff of science fiction: scientists tamper with a killer bird flu virus and ...

Iraq has reported an outbreak of severe bird flu among poultry in the north of the country, the World Organisation for Animal ...