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Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, ... Aug. 19, 2024 — The ...

Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British ...

Internal emails reveal Michigan health officials suspected that owners may have inadvertently spread bird flu to their household cats, raising new concerns about transmission patterns of the virus.

LOGAN — Eight commercial dairy operations in Cache County have tested positive for bird flu, according to officials with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. The announcement comes a ...

Avian influenza does not affect poultry meat or egg products when properly cooked, the agency said. HPAI also is considered low risk to human health, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Officials say egg and meat products are safe from bird flu when they are properly cooked or prepared. They also said that the current risk to the public remains low. An electron microscope image ...

A case of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Pigs represent a ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...

The first case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in a backyard flock of geese and chickens in Jackson County, Oregon. This follows a series of bird flu cases detected ...

Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities in Washington and in Oregon ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.