With egg prices spiking due to bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced steps last week to control the H5N1 virus, such as increasing financial relief for farmers with affected ...

Cats infected with H5N1 can develop severe and fatal illness. We don’t know much more. There is minimal surveillance at state or national levels in the U.S. for companion animal infectious ...

Unpasteurized milk can have especially high concentrations of virus and is thought to be an important route of H5N1 transmission during this outbreak. On one Texas farm, more than half of the cats ...

Rats in Riverside County are the latest mammal species to be infected with H5N1 bird flu Identification of virus in rats raises concerns about potential infection pathways to people and their pets ...

The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was devastating a flock of chickens on a highly secure farm, home of a breeding program that produced hybrid birds with specially colored feathers and eggs.

In this NEJM Outbreaks Update, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by veterinarian and virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka to discuss avian influenza and its current ...

Holstein calf feeds from a bottle of colostrum milk. UC Davis researchers have found that acidification of waste milk can kill H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu. (Richard Van Vleck Pereira / UC ...

The study comes as Ohio announced its first human case of H5N1 in a poultry worker who was hospitalized with respiratory symptoms but has since recovered. The new study of vets found that three of ...

The H5N1 virus is responsible for a worldwide avian flu pandemic in chickens. The virus has been determined to be a subtype of the influenza A virus and was first observed in China in 1996. Since ...

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu Health officials say she was likely infected via handling sick birds in a backyard flock The woman is “an older adult” with “other ...

A genotype of the H5N1 avian influenza virus was found in milk, according to officials with the Arizona Department of Agriculture. The virus was found in milk produced by a daird herd in Maricopa ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed.