Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.

It’s part of a federal mandate from the USDA to perform bulk milk testing to catch any unknown infected dairy cows, eradicate the virus, and keep it from mutating. The state started sampling on ...

Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

Highly pathogenic avian flu was detected in a backyard flock of birds in Franklin County in late December, state officials announced on Dec. 26.

With bird flu making headlines both nationally and locally, it might feel like déjà vu — a repeat of the calm before the storm that preceded the COVID-19 pandemic in ...

Officials will be testing raw milk from all Grade A milk-producing farms in Vermont each month in an effort to detect an ...

Since the first detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, or HPAI, in Texas dairy cattle this past March, the ...

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

Doctors say the case of a teen left in critical condition shows H5N1 "can cause severe human illness." Mutations in the virus are deepening concerns about the spread of H5N1.

Jessica Waterman of the VAAFM Food Safety and Consumer Inspection Division demonstrates the milk sampling procedure from an ...