Avian influenza has been detected in milk from a dairy herd in Maricopa County, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture.

Bird flu was recently detected in milk produced by an Arizona dairy herd for the first time, officials announced Friday.

Avian influenza, or “bird flu,” is a disease caused by influenza A viruses that spread widely among wild birds, and can cause outbreaks in commercial and backyard poultry flocks. Though there ...

since emerging in 2020 in Europe, the current bird flu strain, H5N1, has been declared the largest avian flu epidemic ever on that continent and has spread to Africa, the Middle East and Asia.