The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner said.
Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.
H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, and additional cases have been reported in domestic cats ...
The risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza is as high as its ever been in Pennsylvania, State Veterinarian Dr. Alex Hamberg told poultry stakeholders on Jan. 23.
City health officials say the snow goose was found in West Philadelphia on Jan. 11. Preliminary state testing was positive ...
A snow goose in West Philadelphia ’s Carroll Park neighborhood is the city’s first suspected case of a highly contagious ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Department of Health said Wednesday that the city's first suspected case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, was detected in a snow goose earlier ...
City officials reported on Wednesday that a goose found in West Philadelphia tested positive for highly pathogenic avian ...
Health officials are working to contain an outbreak of bird flu at a Long Island poultry farm. The disease, known as Highly ...
Avian flu is a common illness among birds, but it can spread to humans and other mammals. The virus is shed through ...
Health officials in Philadelphia announced on Wednesday the city's suspected case of bird flu found after testing on an ill ...
A sick snow goose found in West Philadelphia earlier this month has tested positive for the avian influenza A(H5), making it ...