Following an alert in early December from Kansas game wardens about geese carrying bird flu into Kansas, the City of Newton said that dozens of dead geese reported in recent weeks at the wetlands on ...

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s infection.

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...