California is a top destination for birdwatching due to its diverse geography and abundance of bird species. Over 600 bird species, representing about two-thirds of North American bird species ...

SACRAMENTO, California — The bird flu outbreak that has been ripping through California farms since August is starting to abate, state health and agriculture officials said Wednesday ...

Strike highlights strain on lab technicians and poultry farmers No testing delays expected from strike, UC-Davis reallocates testing Millions of California egg-laying hens wiped out by bird flu ...

A group of UC Davis economists recently wrote that though California produces more than 15% of U.S. milk, bird flu has had “little or no impact on milk prices.” Their assessments were released ...

It’s not only birds that are getting sick. Most confirmed human cases of bird flu in California — there have been 38 — have also been in San Joaquin Valley, which includes Fresno ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a five-pronged strategy to combat rising egg prices amid the H5N1 bird flu outbreaks The agency has targeted California’s Proposition 12 ...

Workers at the only laboratory in California authorised to confirm high-risk bird flu cases are set to go on strike next week, citing years of understaffing, inadequate training, and burnout as ...

(This Feb. 26 story has been corrected after the University of California clarified that the lab has sent some bird flu tests out of state for months, in paragraphs 1, 8 and in the headline) By Tom ...