Bird flu has crept uncomfortably close to home in recent months. Public health experts have detected nearly five dozen known infections of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in people in the U.S ...

Bird flu is primarily transmitted through contact ... poultry production impacts every corner of Georgia, from South Georgia to North Georgia.” Harper highlighted the widespread nature of ...

The striking bird has a black belly instead of the usual ... The season has only just started on South Georgia, we were only the third boat to land there. 'I hope other people get to see it ...

Georgia's cases were the latter ... Seasonal flu vaccines are not designed or intended to protect against bird flu. Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for Gannett/USA Today.

Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South Georgia is uninhabited. Only a few visiting scientists and government fisheries inspectors occupy the island ...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture ... poultry operation near the state’s border with South Carolina. This is the state’s fifth case of bird flu, but first in a commercial poultry operation.

CHICAGO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the ... tested positive last week in Elbert County, Georgia, near the border with South Carolina, according to the U.S. Department ...