More than 13,000 wild seabirds, many of them pelicans, have been found dead in Peru due to bird flu, according to the National Forestry and Wildlife Service.
China confirmed its first human case of the H10N3 bird flu strain on Tuesday, June 1. The confirmation was made by Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC).
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) detected Eurasian/North American reassortant H5N2 avian influenza in a wild mallard duck in Fergus County, Montana.
The H5N1 avian flu, commonly referred to as the bird flu, has finally hit North America. On Wednesday, health officials confirmed that the first North American death from the virus came last week in Alberta, Canada.
