Wildlife officials are keeping a close eye on the spread of avian influenza after nearly 300 birds were found dead along the North Carolina coast earlier this year — most of them ...

HPAI has had the greatest impact on pullets and egg-laying poultry, where bird housing density is higher, said Dr. Lisa ...

The bird is at least the third confirmed case of bird flu in western North Carolina. In 2024 a dead duck found at Lake Louise tested positive for bird flu, and in January waterfowl at a Buncombe ...

Together, public health leaders said, the cuts are reducing the entire system to a shadow of what it once was, threatening to ...

State and local health departments depend on federal money and support. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were ...