Minnesota and Iowa were added to the National Milk Testing Strategy on Jan. 8. There are now 36 states involved in the testing for the avian influenza virus.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture hopes to roll out testing of raw milk on dairy farms in February as the USDA works to ...

Osterholm says that the primary kind of birds impacted by the flu is migratory waterfowl, like geese and ducks, and these ...

With $1.267 million in funding approved by Governor Tim Walz on Jan. 3, researchers from the University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine will lead a collaborative effort to address ...

Both H5N9 and H5N1 were detected at the duck farm in Merced County, according to tests conducted by the US Department of ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed more H5N1 avian ...

Concerns about bird flu are growing among health officials weeks after the first person in the U.S. died from the virus, and ...

The CDC and MDH are advising health care providers to order further laboratory testing on positive influenza A specimens ...

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike ...

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk ...

Businesses in Lowell are managing the economic fallout from the so-called bird flu, a highly pathogenic and transmissible ...

A bill has been introduced in Lincoln to protect workers in the agriculture sector from dangerous workplace practices and get ...