The confirmation last week of H5N1 bird flu in northern elephant seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Parkhas put wildlife managers and public health officials on alert.

Bird flu may be particularly severe in humans because it is resistant to one of the body’s most important defence systems, a new study has suggested. When the human body responds to an infection its ...

Birds, like some other pets, are experts at masking illness. This is why signs of stress can sometimes be symptoms of an underlying medical condition. A sudden change in your bird’s behavior means you ...

An avian disease that is spreading and killing tons of birds is more frequently making the jump to mammals, which has health experts appropriately concerned. So far, the risk to humans of so-called ...