As 2024 came to an end, bird flu dominated headlines. The virus, technically known as avian influenza, was being detected in raw milk, dairy farms and even children, my colleagues Susanne Rust and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a summer lull in U.S. cases of avian influenza in both poultry and dairy cattle—and no human infections reported in the ...

At the start of 2025, health officials in Louisiana reported the first U.S. bird flu death and experts questioned whether highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) could lead to the next pandemic. A ...