SACRAMENTO, California — The bird flu outbreak that has been ripping through California farms since August is starting to abate, state health and agriculture officials said Wednesday, heralding “good ...

If you are fond of dyeing eggs for Easter, you may want to think twice as a nationwide shortage of eggs is driving prices to record highs. Experts lay the blame on an outbreak of avian influenza, or ...

A new strain of bird flu — H5N9 — has been detected in California’s Merced County at a commercial duck operation. According to the World Organization for Animal Health — an international consortium of ...

As California’s Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...

Workers at the only lab in California with the authority to confirm high-risk bird flu cases will go on a brief strike next week, claiming that years of understaffing, poor training and burnout have ...

Dozens of bird eggs and chicks were rescued from nests in a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapsing in a California park. Now staff at the International Bird ...

H5N9 is a rare strain of avian influenza. H5N1 is the more common strain of the bird flu and has been responsible for most of the reported human cases. H5N1 was responsible for the first human death ...

A bobcat (not the one in this picture) was found dead on Dec. 23, 2022, in Butte County, California, officials said. It died from avian flu. Liz Guertin via Unsplash An adult bobcat died from the bird ...

Avian flu does not currently pose a widespread risk to human health. However, California farmworkers are on the front lines of rising human case numbers as the virus burns through California’s poultry ...

H5N9 is a rare strain of avian influenza. H5N1 is the more common strain of the bird flu and has been responsible for most of the reported human cases. H5N1 was responsible for the first human death ...