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.

The Stearns County detection is the first in a Minnesota dairy herd so far this year. The same 620-cow herd also tested ...

In February 2022, a new variant of the highly contagious virus was detected in U.S. commercial and backyard poultry, and it ...

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

H5N1, also known as bird flu, has been found in a Stearns County dairy herd, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Officials said the virus poses a low risk for humans because all milk sold in stores is pasteurized which effectively ...

The H5N1 virus was detected in a single animal in Yorkshire, the British government said on Monday. It added that the risk to humans remained very low.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...