Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading ...

Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for National Institutes of Health grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local ...

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As bird flu cases continue to pop up in humans, Canada announced Wednesday that it purchased 500,000 doses of vaccine ...

Bird flu has affected more than 2.2 million birds in Pennsylvania this year. The state is funding efforts to protect flocks ...

Since the summer, the U.S. has begun preparing about 10 million doses of a vaccine that they think will be effective against H5N1 bird flu. Federal officials have elected not to u ...

The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or bird flu, has resurged across Pennsylvania ... Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia and Schuylkill, DiSalvo said. The commission, he said, believes it is ...

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

An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." ...

Rising cases of bird flu are posing a sizable financial threat to Pennsylvania's agricultural industry and its farmers.

Four black rats were confirmed to have H5N1 avian flu in late January in Riverside County, California, where two recent poultry outbreaks were reported, the agency said. Officials have previously ...

The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, amid an ...