Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ...

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

In other developments, Alveo Technologies announced an agreement with CDC to develop a rapid multiplex test for point-of-need ...

For the first time, a bird flu infection has been detected in a pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting ...

A case of H5 bird flu is believed to be detected in a human in Canada for the first time, health officials said Saturday. A teenager from the province of British Columbia tested positive for the ...

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag ...

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...

Iowa has had a total of 13 herds affected ... Map of states that have confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in livestock. (Map courtesy of USDA) Vilsack said on Thursday that ...

The sampling program will expand surveillance for a disease that threatens Pennsylvania’s two largest ag sectors while ...

Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone was ...

and Iowa also has seen the virus infect dairy cattle. But the USDA said there is no risk to the nation's pork supply from the Oregon case and that the risk to the public from the avian flu ...