MISSOULA — Millions of birds across the United States have been impacted by avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, ...

No human cases have been reported this year in Connecticut. But the disease has been detected in people connected with farms ...

Three cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza were detected in Washington state in October.

A mutant strain of H5N1 avian ... the 2022 population size," said Valeria Falabella, director of coastal and marine ...

The bird flu has been spreading rapidly among cows on a handful of dairy farms in California, Idaho and Utah. The virus, also ...

Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, ... Aug. 19, 2024 — The ...

USDA recently confirmed the first case of H5N1 bird flu in a pig. Dr. Megan Niederwerder, executive director of the Swine ...

Less than a month after reporting its first human case of bird flu, California has confirmed that 16 people have now been infected with the disease, and a Newsweek map shows how the numbers ...

Bird flu was detected in a backyard poultry flock in Flathead County, the latest linked to an ongoing outbreak, according to the Montana Department of Livestock. The case is the 25th detection ...

Detections of avian influenza are typically higher in the fall and spring months due to waterfowl migration, the agency said. Since May 2022, three commercial poultry flocks and 37 backyard flocks ...

If one can point to anything good about the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle — to be honest, there’s nothing good about this situation — it’s the timing. Transmission of the virus ...

Bird flu cases have more than doubled in the country within a few weeks, but researchers can’t determine why the spike is happening because surveillance for human infections has been patchy for ...