Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

The outbreak of avian flu, which began in turkeys in February 2022, has already led to the death of 150m birds, including 41m ...

Within 24 to 48 hours of the first detection of the virus, state and federal animal health officials work with farms to cull ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

A second type of bird flu has been found in U.S. dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday.

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...