Then there was Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote in his medieval poem “Parliament of Fowl” that English birds mated on Valentine’s ...

Avian flu outbreaks date back centuries, when it was once known as "fowl plague," but this outbreak is unique. This time, the virus is adapting to the environment in new ways, infecting a record ...

1878: First description of avian influenza as "fowl plague" in northern Italy, identified as a contagious disease causing high mortality in poultry. 1959: First known H5N1 outbreak in Scotland ...

This dual-purpose vaccine demonstrated the ability to elicit strong immune responses against both duck plague and fowl cholera, highlighting the potential for using viral vectors to simultaneously ...

The United States' approach to global food security, along with its leadership in animal public health, changed course on ...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced Thursday preliminary testing shows a case of bird flu in a Montgomery County ...

In the last five years, diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, rift valley fever, swine vesicular disease, sheep and goat pox, fowl plague ...