A highly contagious bird flu, officially called Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza or HPAI, is spreading rapidly among wild birds around the U.S. …
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Wild Birds
Fall migration brings the return of bird flu in wild birds – BenitoLink
Avian influenza in free-ranging wild birds is primarily a disease of waterfowl and shorebirds, the natural hosts of avian influenza viruses whose …
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Scientists Release Five Hawaiian Crows on Maui, Giving the Imperiled Birds a Second …
The species has been extinct in the wild since 2002, and past efforts to reintroduce them to their native range were unsuccessful. Now, employing a …
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USDA says it will start testing milk for H5N1 nationwide – Los Angeles Times
Nearly a year after a wild bird infected with H5N1 avian flu presumably passed it’s viral baggage to a dairy cow in the Texas panhandle — which …
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World’s oldest-known wild bird lays an egg in Hawaiʻi at age 74 | Hawai’i Public Radio
The oldest-known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of 74, her first in four years. The Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish …
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CDFW News | Fall Migration Brings the Return of Avian Influenza in Wild Birds
Avian Influenza H5N1 is again circulating in susceptible wild birds in California during fall migration. California sits at the epicenter of the …
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Single mutation to bird flu protein altered receptor specificity in lab – C&EN
Study reports that wild-type H5N1 hemagglutinin preferentially … The clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses that have spread through wild birds and …
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World’s oldest-known wild bird lays an egg in Hawaii at age 74 – YourErie.com
The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in four years, U.S. wildlife officials said. The …
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