USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread around the US, health officials recently found that 7 percent of dairy workers tested on ...

(CDC/NIAID via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu ...

A case of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Pigs represent a ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

Bird flu was detected in a pig at a backyard farm in Oregon. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine. Finding bird flu in a pig raises worries that the virus could become a ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...

As of now, 17 states have reported H5N1 bird flu cases in humans, but there is still no evidence for transmission between people and the infections have been mild. Could that change?

Internal emails reveal Michigan health officials suspected that owners may have inadvertently spread bird flu to their household cats, raising new concerns about transmission patterns of the virus.

Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities in Washington and in Oregon ...

A pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current ...