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 ...

Premier Wen Jiabao urged tighter prevention measures as temperatures plunged below zero in Beijing for the first time this year. The capital received 15cm of snow on Sunday. The Ministry of Health has ...

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 ...

After H5N1 bird flu was detected in elephant seals gathered at Año Nuevo State Park, other marine mammals have also succumbed, including a sea otter and sea lion. So far, only animals in San Mateo ...

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