Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wintering birds, including the celebrated snow geese, return to California winter. The down side is migrating birds can help ...

Health officials on Thursday said they don't know how a Missouri person caught bird flu but believe it may be a rare instance of a "one-off" standalone illness. Folks worried about bird flu, ...

Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk. By Emily Anthes Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet ...

Gottlieb is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA commissioner. McClellan is director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy and former FDA commissioner and ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1, commonly known as HPAI or bird flu) is a formidable worldwide public health concern. With approximately a 100% mortality rate, the World Organization for ...

Pet birds are naturally skilled at masking illness. In the wild, showing weakness can make them vulnerable to predators, and this instinct continues even in domesticated environments. This makes it ...

Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet Garden birds should not be fed seeds and nuts over the summer months, the RSPB ...

Anyone with a flat bird feeder or bird table in their garden is being urged to use other types of feeders for an important reason. According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and ...

Wintering birds, including the celebrated snow geese, return to California winter. The down side is migrating birds can help spread H5N1 bird flu and other diseases among other bird species, animals ...