The National Wastewater Surveillance System’s funding expires at the end of fiscal year 2025, just as bird flu heats up.

Though H5N1 bird flu is hardly our only infectious-disease threat with pandemic potential, the virus impacts wild birds and ...

Gov. Tim Walz and state leaders on Wednesday urged new strategies to protect Minnesotans and agricultural producers from H5N1 ...

Public health disasters like a pandemic could strike at any time and a national group gave only a middle grade to South ...

Officials said the virus poses a low risk for humans because all milk sold in stores is pasteurized which effectively ...

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...

Wastewater testing would be doubly important, given the potential for asymptomatic infections in birds and livestock. Cattle pose other challenges when bird flu strikes a herd. Financially ...