A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1), commonly known as bird flu, has been identified in a backyard ...

DEAR CHARLENE: After a relatively quiet summer for the bird flu, H5N1 spiked when water fowl began their migration. Experts ...

Bird flu is spreading again as water fowl migrate. In poultry, cases are spiking earlier than expected, so some state ...

Infectious H5N1 avian influenza virus can persist in raw-milk cheeses while they are being made and for up to 120 days of aging, depending on the milk's ...

Wild-bird detections have also spiked, especially in migratory blue-winged teal. In Kansas, 20 hunter-harvested blue-wing ...

Infectious virus persisted throughout the cheese-making process and aging in cheeses made with raw milk at pH levels above 5.0.

A third case of mammal-to-human transmission of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus has been reported in the United States. This latest case, involving a dairy worker in Michigan, raises ...

Several months after the avian influenza situation was considered resolved in commercial poultry in Brazil, it is now also ...

The State of Illinois is now officially considered to be “unaffected” by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in dairy cattle, the ...

Tests show pasteurized dairy with H5N1 remnants did not cause illness in mice, supporting safety of milk during outbreaks.

Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and ...

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been identified in a backyard poultry flock in Racine County, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced Monday.