Avian influenza virus

The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. has temporarily closed a facility in Texas after an H5N1 bird flu outbreak killed nearly two million birds.

Cal-Maine Foods culled 1.6 million hens after some tested positive for avian influenza. The U.S. has seen an uptick of cases in livestock such as dairy ...

New Mexico's top veterinarian said that cows from two separate herds have been confirmed positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza.

The patient is being treated with an antiviral drug and is believed to have been in contact with dairy cows infected with H5N1 avian influenza.

H5N1 has wreaked havoc on birds around the globe and occasionally made the jump to mammals, including cows. The risk to people remains low.

WASHINGTON -- Although the risk to humans is very low, the case of the Texas farmworker apparently contracting pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) from a ...

Bird flu has jumped from birds to cows — and now from cows to a human in Texas. Here's how to think about your risk, the history of the virus, and what the ...

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. reported the halt of production at its Texas facility due to avian flu.

A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both reported outbreaks of avian flu this week. The latest developments on the virus also include ...

CDC director Dr. Mandy Cohen tells NPR that while the risk of bird flu spreading to humans is low, the U.S. government is taking precautions to avoid spread ...

The infections, which include one associated human case, add another worrying wrinkle to a global outbreak that has devastated bird and marine mammal ...

Bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus, was first detected in 1996 among birds in China, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Bird flu is affecting a growing number of cattle herds in the US, and these infections have led to only the second known human case in the nation, ...

Also, when CDC scientists compared the human H5N1 samples to viruses from cattle, wild birds, and poultry, they found in the human sample a mutation with known ...

Bird flu outbreaks among U.S. cattle are a new twist in a growing global crisis. And it could be a harbinger of more species-jumps to come, including the ...

Cases of bird flu have been found in dairy cattle, but the risk to humans remains low. Ukraine is front and center today as NATO celebrates its 75th ...

Avian flu outbreaks have now been reported in cows and chickens in several states, so is it safe to eat food that may have come from infected animals?