Bird flu

A dangerous strain of avian influenza (bird flu) is now wreaking havoc on every continent except Australia and the rest of Oceania.

A second U.S. dairy worker has tested positive for avian influenza. Is bird flu spreading among humans—and will it in the future?

The first case was reported in Texas in a dairy worker in March, while an Australian child with a different strain than the current one in the US was ...

The saga of bird flu outbreaks in Victoria is continuing as state officials confirmed a second poultry farm had been hit with it.

Community, social justice and wildlife conservation groups delivered a letter today urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to dramatically ...

Victoria's outbreak of H7N3 avian influenza has spread to another poultry farm in the states west, Agriculture Victoria has confirmed.

Contact tracing didn't identify any cases beyond this child. While the risk to the public is very low, the global situation with bird flu is precarious.

Discovery at Terang follows detection of H7N3 avian influenza at Meredith egg farm, where mass chicken cull is taking place.

Bird flu has spread to a second Victorian poultry farm, authorities have confirmed.

Avian flu is on the march and experts warn gaps in surveillance of backyard chickens could expose Australia to a major outbreak. “During the past five years ...

More than 560000 chickens have been destroyed at two farms in Victoria's west as officials confirmed two different strains of avian influenza were detected ...

Michigan worker develops mild symptoms after exposure to infected cows, but wider public risk remains low.

On May 22, 2024, a Michigan farmworker was stricken with conjunctivitis, or eye redness, a common symptom caused by bacterial or viral infections.

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows ...

A strain of bird flu called H5N1 has been confirmed in dairy cows in nine U.S. states, along with two people.

Study in NEJM shows mice fed milk from H5N1-infected cows became very ill, highlighting probable risk to humans.

Unpasteurized milk contaminated with H5N1, the bird-flu virus that has turned up in dairy herds in nine states, has been found to rapidly make mice sick, ...

People with cats shouldn't feed them raw milk, some animal health experts have warned.

Since 2022, bird flu has been infecting a wide variety of mammals. “You can find this trend around the world, almost anywhere you look,” says Thomas ...

On May 22nd America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a new human infection with the H5 avian influenza virus, a bug with pandemic ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday the state's first reported case of the bird flu linked to dairy cows, ...

To protect our birds and your food, more than half a million chickens need to die. It's a cold, harsh reality of Australia's tough biosecurity measures ...

More than 500000 chickens from two farms in the state of Victoria have been culled after cases of H7N3 were detected at the properties.

Muscle from a sick dairy cow tested positive for the virus. The meat did not enter the commercial food supply, which officials said remained safe.

Bird flu virus particles were found in tissue samples taken from one dairy cow sent to slaughter at a U.S. meat processing plant, but none were detected in ...

Feeding raw milk contaminated with bird flu to mice infected them with the virus, adding to evidence that consumption of unpasteurized milk is not safe for ...

Bird flu has been confirmed in dairy cattle herds in nine states, has been found in milk and has prompted the slaughter of millions of chickens and turkeys.