Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the ...

Avian influenza virus from the ongoing outbreak in dairy cattle appears to be keeping its bird-infecting features rather than ...

H5N1 avian influenza virus was first found infecting cattle in 2024, though its risk of adapting to infect and spread through ...

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

Scientists have known for more than a year that bird flu, H5N1, made the jump from wild birds and common poultry to cows and ...

Decreased milk production, death, and early removal from a single herd of adult dairy cows infected with the H5N1 strain of ...

A bird flu outbreak is being investigated in California after a suspected infection of three dairy farms in Central Valley.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle and ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

Fears of a bird-flu pandemic have been rising since the first confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in dairy cattle was reported in March 2024. Since then, the virus has affected ...

In experiments conducted in a biosafety level 3 facility, the researchers studied ferrets that had antibodies to seasonal flu ...

Until recently, all dairy herd detections in the U.S. had been infected with a form of bird flu, or avian influenza, known as B3.13.