Highly contagious H5N1 avian flu has been confirmed in a Mississippi chicken flock. Do you know the symptoms of bird flu? The Mississippi Board of Animal Health issued a news release on Monday, Dec.

Millions of birds will be in the skies near you this week. Late April starts peak spring bird migration for South Mississippi, and areas in the north of the state will see heavy traffic through the ...

The first human bird flu death was reported out of Louisiana on Monday, Jan. 6. The same case was the first serious case of H5N1 in humans in the U.S. The Louisiana Department of Health said in a news ...

Mississippi Board of Animal Health announced that highly pathogenic bird flu has been found in a Mississippi poultry flock. Is a new pandemic on the horizon? According to a news release from MBAH, the ...

A woman from Petal, Mississippi was looking through photos sent to her phone from a bird feeder camera and found pictures of the usual suspects, but as kept looking she found something pink and it ...

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Mississippi state and federal officials have confirmed an outbreak of a strain of bird flu not reported in the U.S. since 2017, with quarantine and depopulation efforts already underway. In a ...

Veterinarians across the state are monitoring a recent outbreak of the bird flu in Mississippi.Bird flu, also known as H5N1 avian influenza, was detected in the state last week.The Mississippi ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—On a clear spring morning along the Mississippi coast, Scott Rush, a scientist in Mississippi State University’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center, ascends over an open savannah in ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi where chickens are raised for breeding. The finding of the new strain came as researchers ...

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