bird flu

Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential exposure to bird flu.

Two adult mountain lions on the Olympic Peninsula are the latest victims of bird flu in Washington State.

With winter weather setting in, health officials are urging people to take precautions against circulating viruses. And this year, local experts are highlighting some new threats.

Bird flu’s toll on flocks across the country has meant eggs are expensive and in short supply.

More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County, Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu. Officials are now deliberating on how to transport, bury, compost or incinerate the birds.

A rapidly evolving strain of bird flu has killed a record number of people this year in China. Scientists are concerned about its potential to spur a global pandemic.

State officials are urging owners of backyard chicken to sign up their flock for bird flu testing.The state is trying to prevent an outbreak of a new…

Because of fears that lab-altered bird flu viruses could cause a deadly pandemic if they ever escaped the lab, scientists agreed to a moratorium on mutant H5N1 flu research eight months ago. Now top scientists in the field continue the debate about the work, publishing six commentaries for and against the end of the moratorium.

Export controls designed to restrict international trade in weapons are keeping scientists from sharing their research on the bird flu virus.

A government advisory committee has reconsidered its advice to keep certain details of bird flu experiments secret. Revised versions of manuscripts that describe two recent studies can be openly published, the committee now says. The decision could help end a debate that has raged within the scientific community for months.