The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...

Shraddha Kapoor is quite active on social media and often shares a sneak peek into her personal life with her fans. The actor has once again grabbed attention for her personal life as she shared a ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

Pet parents are growing more concerned about the risk of bird flu in cats after recent reports of cats contracting avian influenza A (H5N1) from contaminated food sources. In December 2024, one cat ...

Last year, a team of scientists discovered that birds seem to ‘buddy up’ with other species at stopover sites during migration, but there was no evidence that different species pair up or ...

The H5 avian influenza has proven highly contagious and deadly in birds. While the same effects haven’t yet been found in infected humans, health officials are closely monitoring the virus for ...

Cats can get sick with bird flu. Here’s how to protect them The cases and subsequent deaths mark the first time any animals at the zoo have contracted HPAI, officials said. “This is sad news ...

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