The news comes in the midst of HPAI cases in a commercial poultry operation in Kent County, Del., plus one in Caroline County ...

The finding indicates that the virus, known as H5N1, has spilled from birds into cows at least twice — leading to these two sets of infections — and that it could continue to do so.

The USDA has determined that pasteurized milk will not transmit this H5N1 virus to humans. Raw milk sales are legal in Nevada, but there are no farms certified to sell it, according to the department.

The strain currently impacting birds is H5N1, and it's the most widespread outbreak the state has seen since it arrived in 2021. "Evidence suggests that HPAI is widespread in Massachusetts and is ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

A new version of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in milk samples collected from dairy herds in Nevada. The strain, known as D1.1, had so far been associated only with migrating birds and ...

That could mean the H5N1 infection might become endemic, or continuously circulating, in birds in North America, and that may eventually spell trouble for people, too. “In my opinion, it is now ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N9 has been identified in U.S. poultry for the first time, after outbreak at a commercial ...

For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

It also recommends asking about recent close contact with a symptomatic person with a possible or confirmed case of H5N1. Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, director of CDC's National Center for ...

Whether it's ducks or chickens, since the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the United States in 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized. "It's a staggering number ...