A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough professional scientists to study all the various bird species and observe how their populations are changing. However, we do have citizen scientists ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is back. Between Feb. 14 and 17, the event invites nature enthusiasts around the world to watch and count as many birds as they can in their “favorite places.” ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? All this raises the question: If bird flu is killing animals right and left, and has killed at least one human, should we be worried?

When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago ... experts said, and could be welcome news to farmers. But reinfections suggest that the virus, called H5N1, could circulate on farms ...

It also said the risk to the wider public "continues to be very low" and that bird-to-human transmission of this kind was rare. UKHSA routinely swabs people who have been in close contact with ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

As the bird flu outbreak affecting poultry, dairy cows and humans in the U.S. continues to make headlines, here’s what to know about the situation as of January 23. The U.S. reported its first ...