Scientists continue to closely monitor a concentrated outbreak of avian influenza that is killing dozens of elephant seals on the San Francisco Bay Area coast. As of ...

NORTHAMPTON, Pa. - A bio-secure warning sign, the current-day greeting card at Upper Mount Bethel's Liberty Acres Farm. "It's secure, so we can't really take people around the farm anymore," said ...

WISCONSIN — Bird flu has been confirmed in two separate commercial poultry flocks in the state, according to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. One of the flocks is in ...

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little indication that it would become so widespread and so destructive. Within 30 ...

Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a ...

Since 2022, avian influenza has affected around 200 million birds in over 2,100 flocks across the United States. Around 11.6 million Wisconsin birds have been infected in the ...

In response to these spillover events, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and Kansas State University are investing $401,802 in a Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) ...

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The state had eight detections of highly pathogenic avian flu in the past week in three counties, Elkhart, Lagrange, and Jay. Jay County had the largest outbreak, involving 20,600 birds on a ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...