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Avian flu reports have slowed in the past few weeks, but the game commission is still responding to the occasional call of a ...

The Highly Pathogenic avian influenza virus is a highly contagious disease that spreads among birds and other animals.

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

As emergency rooms see more patients with respiratory complications, hospitals are being asked to test for possible bird flu in humans.

People are trying to smuggle eggs across the southern border, authorities said, as prices continue to increase amid a ...

The risk of bird flu to the public remains low, and no poultry were sold at the Union County market that may have been infected, officials said.