Local turkey farmers are on high alert after a highly pathogenic avian influenza infected commercial flocks in three Minnesota counties. The most recent outbreak affected a flock of more than ...

A man in Mexico has died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) has said is the first lab-confirmed human infection with the H5N2 strain of bird flu. The 59-year-old Mexico City resident ...

Symptoms of avian flu include fever, cough, sore throat and sometimes severe respiratory diseases and pneumonia.

“While the threat of avian influenza to the general population ... reported the first known case of a human case of influenza H5N2, which was fatal, although the infected man had underlying ...

A version of the H5N1 virus that has killed one person and severely sickened another has been detected in milk samples ...

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Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to pet owners, federal regulators announced Friday. Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...