Since emerging in China in the mid-1990s, highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) has spread worldwide. On Valentine's Day 2006, during an icy German ...

The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service have detected cases of Highly Pathogenic ...

A multiagency team of wildlife experts confirmed this week that several elephant seals belonging to the famed colony at Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo Wildlife officials confirm H5N1 bird flu in ...

About 30 seals at a California state park have died, and seven of them had the lethal virus. Lab results for the other animals are pending ...

Baby seal deaths and seizures alerted scientists to discover the outbreak at at Año Nuevo State Park officials said.

Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...

IDALS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture categorize these flocks as multi-species backyard flocks. A spokesperson with ...

Researchers from UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz have detected the H5N1 bird flu virus in elephant seal pups at California's Año ...

The outbreak marks the first H5N1 detection in marine mammals in California, and the first detection of the virus in northern ...

About 30 seals had died as of Thursday, nearly all of them weaned pups, amid the rise of avian influenza ...