Tressa Speight noticed a lot of Facebook chatter Wednesday evening about a bald eagle that seemed to have a broken wing and was unable to fly near Portage Lakes State Park.

A beauty spot in a seaside town has a suspected outbreak of avian influenza, also known as bird flu.Blackpool Council said several swans had died at the town's Stanley Park over the last few days.The deaths have been reported to the Department for Environment,

There have not been any cases among commercial flocks in Massachusetts, said Agricultural Commissioner Ashley Randle.

Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new strain of bird flu virus different from the one circulating in other herds throughout the past year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The variant of bird flu that killed a Louisiana resident has now been found in dairy cows. Until now, the human cases of bird flu traced to cattle have been mild, mostly eye infections. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that a strain previously found only in wild birds has turned up in dairy herds in Nevada ‒ raising concerns that future human infections could be more serious.

The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice.