Two new H5N1 outbreaks confirmed in North West and Mpumalanga provinces. • Government plans first-ever mass poultry vaccination campaign underway. • Past 2023 epidemic led to culling of 10.5 million ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Georgia’s bald eagles are having an average nesting year – and that’s good news, according to the scientists who study them.

South Africa has reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Wednesday.

In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

Bird flu continues to make headlines – this time, as it pertains to raw milk. A recent lab study found that H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, can survive in raw milk for quite ...

THE PUBLIC HAS been urged to steer clear of sick or dead wild birds and to do the same with pets. The Department of ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a highly contagious viral infection primarily affecting wild and domesticated birds. It is caused by various strains of the bird flu virus (AIV), with H5N1 being ...

Bird flu has spread around the world, even reaching Antarctica for the first time in 2024, in a threat to poultry flocks, wild birds and mammals, including U.S. dairy cows.

The spread of bird flu among poultry flocks in the U.S. is also causing a spike in egg prices. As of Jan. 6, the virus had hit more than 138 million poultry across 50 U.S. states since January ...

Crescent Duck Farm is cautiously rebuilding.But for Corwin, a 66-year-old fourth-generation farmer, it’s not enough to bring the farm back to its 100,000-bird capacity. With ducks hatched from ...