when the USDA announced its finding of bird flu in dairy cows, the virus was spreading undetected among cattle and moving to new states, Rasmussen says. That lag time is a big reason why the ...

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Mike Lomax travels hundreds of miles for the chance to see rare birds Bird watchers from across England are in west Cornwall hoping to catch sight of a Booted Eagle. BBC News talks to some of them ...

Last week, there was a death from the bird flu. Where do things stand today? Andy Pekosz: We're seeing signs that this virus is really moving into humans. There was an infection in a person in ...

The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch returns for the 46th consecutive year next weekend [24-26 January], with hundreds of thousands of people expected to be watching and counting the UK's garden birds. The ...

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There is no risk to human health from a bird flu outbreak in Angus, Scotland's chief veterinary officer has said. Sheila Voas said the public did not need to be concerned and that precautions were ...

A child in San Francisco who had red eyes and a fever had a probable case of H5N1 bird flu, according to the city’s Department of Public Health. The case was caught by routine surveillance.

whether it’s a bird, a pig, a cow, or a person. “It’s a big gambling game,” says Marion Koopmans, a virologist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

H5N1, which causes high rates of death in wild and domestic bird populations ... So that's a really big factor," said McAllister. "Also the earlier that you can identify them and develop ...