Avian influenza is in the same virus family as seasonal flu. Poultry has proven to be very sensitive to the virus, which ...

The Highly Pathogenic avian influenza virus is a highly contagious disease that spreads among birds and other animals.

A non–peer-reviewed study published on the preprint server bioRxiv suggests that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus shed in poultry droppings can be transmitted by the wind, a possibility ...

More than 160 million wild and domestic birds have been infected with bird flu across the United States since 2022.

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5N1 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, ...