Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza is killing black vultures at alarming rates across the southeastern United States, with a new University of Georgia study finding that more than four out of ...

Scientists have discovered that testing the environment of live poultry markets is an effective way to identify avian ...

Two commercial turkey farms in Kent County are under tight control this week after testing positive for highly pathogenic ...

More than two dozen elephant seals have tested positive for avian influenza since the outbreak at Año Nuevo State Park on the San Mateo County coast began in ...

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The Georgia Department of Agriculture says the state is now free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), but the work continues to make sure the risk is over.

The carnage began at Año Nuevo State Park, roughly 50 miles south of San Francisco, where a strain of H5N1 bird flu has ...

Avian influenza has reached the U.S. west coast’s marine mammal population. Young northern elephant seals located at Año Nuevo State Park have tested positive for H5N1, a deadly virus also known as ...

Patrick Robinson, a biologist and director of the UC Santa Cruz Año Nuevo Natural Reserve, said that about 47 elephant seals ...

Wildlife authorities confirmed Thursday that nine more elephant seals, a sea lion and an otter have died from bird flu at Ano ...

An avian flu outbreak at California's Año Nuevo State Park is spreading across the Central Coast, infecting elephant seals, a ...

A new strain that dominated the early winter was not well matched to the vaccine, leading to an intense early onslaught of flu.