HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

H5N1 bird flu can cause severe illness in humans. Experts warn it spreads from animals, not people, but can turn deadly if ...

Now the more than century-old farm – the last duck farm remaining in a New York region once synonymous with the culinary ...

The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...

The Brazilian Agriculture Ministry updated on Thursday the list of countries that have placed restrictions on chicken trade ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

Bird flu led to the deaths of nearly 50 million domestic birds in 2024 and more than 19 million already this year, according to USDA. Any poultry farm where the virus is detected must put all its ...

While bird flu has been around for decades, the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen spread from a wild bird to a cow came as a surprise to virus watchers, according to news officials.In ...

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

Bird flu continues to affect the availability and price of eggs as the disease hits farms and wipes out flocks. Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds.

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