A global outbreak of avian flu is reaching Arizona, though officials believe the public health risk remains low. According to the Centers for Disease Control, H5 bird flu has spread in wild birds ...

Avian flu or bird flu was detected in wastewater in Phoenix, Surprise and Tempe, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health confirmed on Monday. All three of the cities conduct wastewater ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — More cases of the bird flu have been detected in the Valley. A free-ranging domestic goose and a Canada goose were discovered to have avian influenza, according to the Arizona ...

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Possible evidence of bird flu has been detected in three cities in Maricopa County, Arizona—Phoenix, Surprise and Tempe—through wastewater sampling. The Maricopa County Department of Public Health ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — Additional cases of bird flu have been confirmed in Arizona, this time in two geese at a park in Scottsdale. The Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory recently detected ...

Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died and others are sick after being exposed to the bird flu. Maricopa ...

Zoo officials said the animals that have died, include a cheetah, a mountain lion, a swamphen, an Andean goose and a kookaburra. Animals at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, Arizona have ...