A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a ...

An uncomfortable truth is that there is another influenza pandemic in humankind’s future. Whether it will be a relative of the lethal avian flu strain currently wreaking havoc in bird populations ...

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet ...

The bird flu is now jumping between species of mammals, a step that draws the virus closer to hopping into human beings, a new study warns. Researchers have tracked transmission of avian influenza ...

A strain of avian influenza that has likely sickened and killed millions of birds around the globe has popped up in an unexpected species: Cows. A person exposed to cattle on one of those Texas farms ...

Over the last two months, the virus was detected on nearly 50 commercial poultry farms, leading to the mass culling of 7.3 million farmed birds — more than during the same period in previous years.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Bird flu has been linked to ...

Conservation efforts since 1993 have saved up to 32 bird and 16 mammal species from extinction, according to a study published in Conservation Letters. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

'In winter, when natural sources freeze, birds rely on accessible water for drinking and bathing. A shallow, clean birdbath, ideally with a small heater or refreshed daily, can make a huge difference ...

This is one the most extraordinary and convoluted evolutionary tales that I have ever heard. It’s the origin story of a group of viruses called REVs. It’s the tale of how naturalists and scientists ...