Although California dairy farmers had heard about the H5N1 bird flu before it hit, none was prepared for the devastation it ...

Food Theft' Among Seabirds Could Be Transmission Point for Deadly Avian Flu Sep. 16, 2024 — If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue ...

Concerns about bird flu — officially known as avian influenza A (H5) — continue to mount, particularly in California. Infectious disease experts voice their concerns and recommend precautions.

Officials are racing to vaccinate dairy workers against the seasonal flu to prevent the two viruses from combining.

Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious disease reporter, has been writing about H5N1 bird flu for 20 years. If you’re aware of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cattle — you may have seen ...

Bird flu has been detected in dairy herds in several other Michigan counties this year and most recently was confirmed in a dairy herd in Shiawassee County. Bird flu has also impacted people this ...

Millions of migratory birds are arriving on Australian shores this spring. Any one of them could bring the new, deadly strain ...

From the earliest days of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle, experts watching the evolving situation have worried ...

Britain has increased on Thursday the risk level of bird flu to medium from low after the virus was detected in a number of ...

Five more people who presumably contracted the bird flu are being tested amid outbreaks in California's dairy industry, health officials confirmed Monday. The five new possible positive cases are ...

Oct 17 (Reuters) - Cows in California are dying at much higher rates from bird flu than in other affected states, industry and veterinary experts said, and some carcasses have been left rotting in ...

Bird flu has been detected in another Michigan dairy cow herd, state officials said Wednesday. The latest cow herd affected by the virus is located in Clinton County, the Michigan Department of ...