Ali Khan has been worried about bird flu ever since the H5N1 strain first appeared in China in the mid-1990s, when he was a disease detective at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NBC News’ Maggie Vespa joined the group for a day of bird watching. The Great Backyard Bird Count is a bird watching retreat for the blind, designed to let everyone enjoy nature.

A third person in the U.S. has been hospitalized and one person has died due to bird flu. A new vaccine for poultry was just approved, so will we also need a bird flu vaccine for people?

From worries about food safety to egg prices, Americans have questions about the bird flu. This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Three cow veterinarians have tested positive for bird flu antibodies in the United States, according to a new study that suggests not all virus infections are being detected. The current outbreak ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Bird flu has impacted millions of wild birds and ...

A FedEx cargo plane had to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport after striking a bird during takeoff. On Saturday, March 1, FedEx Flight 3609 traveling from Newark to ...

One epidemiologist said chaos at health agencies has left scientists "flying in the dark." Today we’re talking about bird flu. It’s infecting flocks of chickens, causing egg prices to rise ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the middle of a puzzling case. The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was ...