Dr. Wenjun Ma will use the money to work alongside Dr. Wesley Warren and Dr. John Driver to better understand how a chicken's pulmonary network rewires itself after an HPAI infection.

Pockets of the bird flu, a highly contagious respiratory virus, keep showing up on chicken farms on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and in other states each year.

The tigers in the parks in Mae Taeng and Mae Rim districts in Chiang Mai province became sick and died during a roughly 10-day period between Feb. 8-18.