As emergency rooms see more patients with respiratory complications, hospitals are being asked to test for possible bird flu in humans.
The Highly Pathogenic avian influenza virus is a highly contagious disease that spreads among birds and other animals.
The risk of bird flu to the public remains low, and no poultry were sold at the Union County market that may have been infected, officials said.
Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...
Wild and domestic birds aren’t the only species prone to contracting avian influenza. A red fox tested positive in Lehigh County on Jan. 4.
This cold and flu season, a different type of influenza has impacted grocery store poultry sales and national headlines: ...
An infectious disease specialist at Tower Health talks about how many cases of bird flu doctors are seeing in people in ...
Rising cases of bird flu are posing a sizable financial threat to Pennsylvania's agricultural industry and its farmers.