Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

The U.S’s biggest dairy-producing state is being squeezed by the recent outbreak of bird flu, which also affects cattle—and ...

Hickman's Family Farms plans to lay off at least 85 employees in August after an avian flu outbreak forced them to euthanize 6 million chickens.

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Masaio Ishizuka, a senior epidemiologist at the Sao Paulo University, said evidence suggests migratory birds have now infected local Brazilian species, making the bird flu virus endemic in the world's ...

Bird flu continues to make headlines – this time, as it pertains to raw milk.. A recent lab study found that H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, can survive in raw milk for quite ...

A new study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside shows the effectiveness of dairy digesters, which are manure ponds tightly sealed to capture and re-use the methane they ...

On average, ferrets infected with H5N1 bird flu lost nearly 10% of their body weight and had fevers. They were lethargic, and had nasal and ocular discharge along with sneezing. Since 2022, there have ...

TONOPAH, Ariz. — State agriculture officials announced Friday a fourth commercial farm in Maricopa County has tested positive for the avian flu. Meanwhile, the egg company at the center of the ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

The study, published in medRxiv, examined the stability of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in raw cow and sheep milk, with researchers simulating storage conditions common in dairy settings. “High ...