Washington State University will get $1.5 million to study respiratory diseases in livestock, like bird flu, in the Pacific Northwest and their potential spread to humans. Since 2021, the newest avian ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

You may have heard a lot about a certain flu making its way across the country. It’s not the stomach bug going around. It’s bird flu. The flu’s name is highly pathogenic avian flu, or HPAI. It’s been ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- A WSU laboratory is at the forefront of tracking some of the current animal disease outbreaks and keeping our food supply safe. The WSU Animal Diagnostic Disease Laboratory (WADDL) ...

Since first being detected in Newfoundland in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI A(H5Nx), has had a ...

The sight of a sick or dead bird at a feeder doesn’t evoke the same delight as a visit from a healthy, chirping songbird. Seeing diseased birds is often a source of concern, confusion and even guilt ...

Gottlieb is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA commissioner. McClellan is director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy and former FDA commissioner and ...

The strain of bird flu sweeping across UK poultry farms could be the most contagious yet, according to one of the country’s ...

The next few years could see a disastrous confluence of events: the emergence of a lethal bird flu pandemic at a time when the nation’s public health leadership team is ill-equipped to deal with the ...

A teenager in British Columbia is in critical condition after being exposed to H5N1 bird flu. The source of the virus has not been determined. The teen is the first presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu ...