2024 timeline of bird flu cases confirmed in Iowa. May 28: A commercial egg-layer operation with 4.2 million chickens in Sioux County. This was the first case of bird flu in poultry for 2024. June ...

Iowa has seen 16 bird flu outbreaks so far in 2024, with all of them occurring in the northwestern corner of the state. Of the cases this year, 13 were cattle herds while the other three were ...

Last summer some cows, specifically dairy cattle, required testing for Avian Flu before being allowed into into the fair.

A chicken egg-laying operation in Sioux County in northwest Iowa detected the state's first bird flu outbreak of 2024 in May. About 23 million birds have been destroyed in Iowa since 2022 to ...

A Thursday press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about the department’s response to the highly pathogenic ...

A year ago, the H5N1 strain of bird flu was first found in U.S. cows. Since then, there have been cases in herds in 17 states, including 13 in Iowa.

After more than five months without a new outbreak, the Iowa Department of Agriculture has reported three outbreaks of bird flu in commercial poultry flocks in the last few days. The new outbreaks ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research facility in Iowa where 43 scientists work with pigs, cows and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Iowa ag secretary Mike Naig said the state is taking a holistic approach to testing during the latest bird flu outbreak, which has also reached dairy cattle herds in Northwest Iowa ...

Brazil said Wednesday it was free of bird flu, paving the way for it to resume chicken exports to China and 20 other ...