Avian influenza has spread far beyond the nation's birds, infecting all manner of creatures from zoo animals, wild mammals, ...

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The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s infection.

The state had not had a confirmed case of rabies in a human since 1996. Officials have not identified how the person was infected.

Rabies is a rare but serious disease caused by a virus that infects the brain,” Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the ...

Did you ever wonder why California is always in an emergency? Bird flu is the latest one. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a declaration of emergency on Dec. 18 after a severe case in a human was documented.

Bird flu was busy in South Dakota and in some surrounding states in December. According to the USDA’s avian flu tracker, as of Friday, more than 400,000 turkeys in South Dakota and more than 4 million ...