The Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) has confirmed a new detection of H5N1 avian influenza in milk from a Maricopa ...

New bird flu variant found in dairy cattle. Can H5N1 be transmitted to humans? According to the the US Department of Agriculture, this is the first ever detection of this bird flu virus variant in ...

The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...

The U.S’s biggest dairy-producing state is being squeezed by the recent outbreak of bird flu, which also affects cattle—and ...

Some of the recent wild bird positives were sampled recently in a region where outbreaks were reported at Arizona layer farms ...

Five House members from California’s San Joaquin Valley led by Rep. Jim Costa, a Democrat, sent Agriculture Secretary Brooke ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

The state of Wisconsin has reported only one case of bird flu in a backyard poultry flock this year. Dairy herds remain free ...