Officials announce bird flu has been officially confirmed in two more Russian regions and the disease may have spread to Northern Kazakhstan.

Health officials fear a subtype of bird flu could mutate into a lethal strain and rival or exceed the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed between 20 to 40 million people worldwide at the end of World War I

Officials announce bird flu has been officially confirmed in two more Russian regions and the disease may have spread to Northern Kazakhstan.

Health officials fear a subtype of bird flu could mutate into a lethal strain and rival or exceed the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed between 20 to 40 million people worldwide at the end of World War I

A Nevada official confirms two ducks found in a pool outside a Las Vegas Strip casino have tested positive for West Nile Virus.

Anette Rink, Nevada Department of Agriculture director of animal disease and food safety says, "It's my understanding that the birds were picked up in a pool at a Strip casino

New research shows the American robin may be a more potent source for the West Nile virus.

Theodore Andreadis, chief medical entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station , says DNA analysis of blood taken from 300 mosquitoes in Connecticut over the past three years finds 40-percent fed on the blood of robins, while only one percent fed on crows

Ministers are being urged to ban imports of live birds from the EU after the source of an avian disease outbreak was traced back to France, according to BBC News.

The Newcastle Disease outbreak at a pheasant farm in Surrey, England, where 9,000 birds are being culled, was traced back to a French farm where they were bred