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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed deep skepticism regarding mRNA vaccines, despite real-world evidence that the vaccines are safe and saved millions of lives.

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