Bird flu spreading in wild birds across the U.S. Between Dec. 29, 2024, and Jan. 17 of this year, there were 65 new detections of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds across 20 ...

Bird flu is increasingly sparking concern across the country and in Illinois, following news this week of the first human death from the virus in the U.S., and of birds found throughout Illinois ...

Hundreds of ducks die of bird flu along Lake Michigan shoreline 02:13. CHICAGO — Monitors with an area bird tracking organization say that they've determined that a number of ducks have ...

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily change as influenza can rapidly change.

Officials urged residents of the Chicago area not to touch -- or let their pets touch -- dead or sick birds as a bird flu outbreak sickens and kills many across the region.

Annette Prince, director of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors picks up a dead red-breasted merganser at 35th Street Beach to dispose of it, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time that includes evaluating how it would affect exports, the agency told ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

Bird flu spreading in wild birds across the U.S. Between Dec. 29, 2024, and Jan. 17 of this year, there were 65 new detections of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds across 20 states, ...