Migratory birds are in trouble in the Central Valley and across California as they lose habitat and deal with pollution. One ...

Last year, fireworks off a boat was a likely cause of a massive nest abandonment at the California least tern reserve near ...

On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency to streamline the state's response to avian flu. More than half of the human cases in the U.S. so far have been in California.

After California, Washington state has the second highest number of H5N1 infections in people at 11, and Colorado the third highest at 10 people. The above shows detections of bird flu in wastewater.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday to combat bird flu, which has spread to more than a quarter of all the state's dairies in the last month and infected 34 state ...

California wasn't the first state to declare an emergency over the bird flu. Earlier in 2024 , Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued an emergency declaration for Weld County due to an outbreak there ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state of emergency declaration on Wednesday due to bird flu has raised questions about the H5N1 virus, including how it spreads. There are 61 confirmed human cases of bird ...

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S.

On Monday, California became the 14th state to report outbreaks of bird flu in dairy cows. Some have wondered how the Golden State avoided an outbreak thus far in the bird flu crisis, after nearly ...

Federal and state health officials have said the risk to the general public is still low. Before the two California workers, 14 people have been infected with bird flu in a handful of states since ...

While California was not among the first states to detect the bird flu virus in dairy cattle, the state’s agriculture department has found the virus in 645 dairies.

California has recorded just over half of the 61 bird flu cases detected in the US so far, at 33 out of the 61 recorded infections, which were mostly among dairy farm workers.