Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The Department of Agriculture is considering a plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time, including ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time ...

H5N1 bird flu is capable of spreading through the air, a new animal study from the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has found. H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...

TONOPAH, Ariz. — State agriculture officials announced Friday a fourth commercial farm in Maricopa County has tested positive for the avian flu. Meanwhile, the egg company at the center of the ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

FILE – Bottles of raw milk are displayed for sale at a store in Temecula, Calif., on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia, file) — The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for ...

Research and development for a bird flu vaccine for poultry was included in the new Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke L. Rollins’s first five-part strategy for controlling HAPI.

The study hasn’t tested if the vaccine protects adult dairy cows from bird flu. The USDA reports 17 cattle herds have been infected in Idaho in May, the highest of any state in the last month.