Bacteriologist and parasitologist Michelle Jakaitis uses a microscope to view a training sample of veligers, which are the ...

A widespread outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has devastated California’s ....USDA to distribute over $230 million in emergency relief payments ...

To understand HHS’s response, Krishnamoorthi and the Subcommittee have asked all relevant documentation and communication on the bird flu outbreak by June 25.

“But if you do take that time to think about it, it’s pretty sad.” She lived that reality firsthand in early 2022, soon after the killer strain of bird flu arrived in North America. Northern Gannets, ...

Bird Flu Is out of the News but Still Circulating Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn’t ...

Avian influenza, a virus of the orthomyxoviridae family. The flu virus causes an infectious and contagious respiratory disease, and often results in a pandemic and/or smaller seasonal epidemic.

Indiana had 34 commercial poultry flocks and 11 small/hobby flocks test positive for bird flu over the past four years, including 27 cases diagnosed this year.

As bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is getting harder New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 avian flu. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that the ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, owing to a decline in animal infections and no reports of human cases ...

Chickens are highly susceptible to avian flu, but a few precautions can keep them and their humans safe.