The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to ...

On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reported that bird flu is suspected to have caused the deaths of about 200 snow geese found Monday in the Lehigh Valley. Dead birds were recovered from ...

H5N1 is an influenza A virus, like many seasonal flu strains, and it requires subtyping to distinguish it from the common flu. “While human cases remain rare, the presence of H5N1 in poultry and dairy ...

SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. - The Lehigh Valley Zoo is taking precautions after cases of the bird flu were found in animals less than 10 miles from the zoo. Two cases were found in birds nearby, prompting ...

Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the state and killed two unvaccinated children.

In 2015, she said the U.S. culled about 50 million domestic birds and halted a bird flu outbreak. This time around, more than 160 million birds have been euthanized, and the virus is still spreading.

But now, it’s wild birds that are responsible for the spread of the flu. “Because these wild birds are migratory, these viruses can be spread very far geographic distances very rapidly when these ...

People’s risk of getting bird flu is currently low, ... The state Game Commission found thousands of snow geese dead from suspected avian flu in the Lehigh Valley this winter.

In response to updated CDC recommendations, HNL Lab Medicine will begin sub-typing all positive influenza A samples from hospitalised patients to detect H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, ...

On the first cases of bird flu in the state this year have been identified in the Lehigh Valley among migratory birds. At the end of the clean up, we removed more than 5000, dead snow geese from ...

Dead birds at an egg facility in Dauphin County are being tested for avian flu. Dr. Gregory Martin with Penn State Extension said the deaths are at a Kreider Farms location on Longview Drive in ...

Bird flu has been confirmed in multiple spots in Pennsylvania. Skip to content. ... LORI, CASES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AT GETTYSBURG COLLEGE AND IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY IN THE PAST MONTH.