It’s the latest in a string of deaths and infections in and around Chicago. Outbreaks of the virus, also called H5N1 or avian flu, have decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds nationwide.

Avian influenza spreads in birds, cows and other animals, and it can sometimes spread to people. In the United States, there has been 68 total reported human cases and one death.

Slater, a 7-year-old harbor seal, died of avian influenza on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Lincoln Park Zoo ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

Avian flu is devastating bird populations along Chicago’s lakefront, with hundreds of dead waterfowl reported in recent days.

But once they are infected with avian flu, they start to suffer tremors and can't move. Officials say that, nationwide, since the H5N1 strain of bird flu reached the U.S. in 2022, more than 148 ...

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 ...

Before the eagle died, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said there were 132 total reported deaths of birds from avian influenza in 22 different Illinois counties in the past month.

Testing for avian flu is only required for lactating dairy cattle. They will need the negative test result within ten days of ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy ...

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