Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

Authorities call the bird flu virus detected at a commercial poultry facility in Georgia a serious threat to the agriculture industry. Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the ...

In late fall, approximately 237,000 wild birds, representing 32 waterfowl species, fly south along the Atlantic Flyway from ... Cartanza knows the odds are high that the wild birds are carrying avian ...

An Antarctic skua, one of the birds hardest hit by avian flu in the ... documented that the virus was likely carried there from South Georgia Island, off the coast of Antarctica.

Public health disasters like a pandemic could strike at any time and a national group gave only a middle grade to South ...

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza ... a major north-south migration ...