More than 200 birds have died from a presumed outbreak of avian flu at a Chicago-area forest preserve, according to authorities.. The deaths occurred at the Baker’s Lake forest preserve, the ...

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 states, according to data published by the U.S ...

Annette Prince, director of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors picks up a dead red-breasted merganser at 35th Street Beach to dispose of it, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.

Avian flu is devastating bird populations along Chicago’s lakefront, with hundreds of dead waterfowl reported in recent days. Volunteers are finding large numbers of sick and dead birds ...

Good afternoon, Chicago Since Friday, hundreds of dead and sick birds have been found along Lake Michigan’s shore — all likely infected with bird flu.

The FDA said its study better simulated how commercial milk processing kills the bird flu virus, H5N1. It's the third human case tied to the dairy cattle, H5N1 outbreak, and the second case in a ...

The bird flu virus drawing attention today — Type A H5N1 — was first identified in 1959. Like other viruses, it has evolved over time, spawning newer versions of itself.

A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has grown to affect more than two dozen herds in eight states, just weeks after the nation’s largest egg producer found the virus in its chickens.

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 states, ...