There are 70 confirmed cases of the bird flu among humans in the U.S., as of Tuesday. The CDC said the current public health risk is low.

NBC Universal, Inc. Three of America’s top milk-producing states aren’t a part of federal surveillance testing for bird flu even as a new variant is turning up in dairy cattle, in what some ...

The National Wastewater Surveillance System’s funding expires at the end of fiscal year 2025, just as bird flu heats up.

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year ...

Cornell University has created the Avian Flu Resource Center to compile up-to-date information about avian flu in wildlife, ...

Scientists have also detected bird flu in three veterinarians working with cattle, which may signal a ... infected vets didn't even practice in a state with a confirmed H5N1 case.

The spread of the bird flu led Gov. Gavin Newsom to announce a state of emergency in December, followed in January by the State Veterinarian’s ban on poultry and dairy cattle events at fairs.

with one working in a state that had no infected cattle. In January, a patient in Louisiana died after contracting the virus, the first human death from bird flu. The patient was an older adult ...

Researchers at UNL's School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have been helping develop a potential vaccine to protect dairy cattle from the bird flu.

The number of H5 bird flu cases among people in ... stemmed from exposure to dairy herds or cattle, while the cause of two of them are unknown. Other states with reported cases include Washington ...