HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa county. Risk to public is low.

Latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates’ report continue to show impact on egg and poultry production.

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to new research from the CDC.

More information: Jing Yang et al, Genetic diversity of H9N2 avian influenza viruses in poultry across China and implications for zoonotic transmission, Nature Microbiology (2025).

The study tested only vaccine responses in calves; much of the avian-flu transmission on dairy farms occurs among lactating adult cattle, says virologist Richard Webby, director of the World ...

I-29 Moo University webinar at noon May 8 to focus on vaccine development for avian influenza in dairy cattle.

April 21, 2025 How bird flu differs from seasonal flu − an infectious disease researcher explains Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and ...

Fears about avian influenza have moved faster than pasture-raised hens in search of the juiciest worms. The outbreak has been blamed for high egg prices and supply shortages while also raising ...

Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic, this platform ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission ...

Bird flu has infected a sheep in Britain in what the government on Monday described as the first case of its kind reported anywhere in the world. While avian influenza had already been detected in ...