Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A duck hunts near June Lake in October. At a commercial operation in Merced County, a new strain of bird flu has been detected.

Most people associate bird flu, or avian influenza, with spikes in egg prices, but the effects of the deadly disease also impact public lands. Multiple state and federal recreation areas have reported ...

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). As of Dec. 23, there had been 36 confirmed human cases of bird flu in the ...

The worst of the H5N1 avian flu outbreak — which began in 2024 and infected thousands of birds and dairy cows and dozens of people in the U.S. — may be over in California, state public health officer ...

Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage folks near farms to get tested for bird flu. The project is a partnership between the state and the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

PESCADERO, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 20: A view of chickens and a rooster at a farm as California declares state of emergency to prevent new public health crisis on Bird flu in Pescadero, California, ...