Bird flu has possibly infected four agricultural workers in Washington state, according to the Washington State Department of Health. In a press release Sunday, the Washington State Department of

Four farm workers who helped cull poultry on an commercial egg farm in Washington are presumed to have been infected with bird flu, making that state the sixth in the country to report human H5N1 infections this year.

Four new cases of bird flu were detected in farmworkers in Washington state this week. Human infections have cropping in six states as the virus spreads among farm animals.

Two missing US Navy aviators have been declared dead, several days after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier, Washington, during a training flight, the Navy said Sunday.

The U.S. Navy said Sunday that two pilots who went missing after a fighter jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington state last week have died.

The U.S. Navy identified the two pilots who died in a jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington as Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans and Lt. Serena N. Wileman, both from California.