Bird flu should no longer be considered solely an avian virus due to the growing spread of the disease in mammals, a leading expert has said. The world’s first-ever case of bird flu in sheep was ...

Bird flu, also known as avian influenza or H5N1, is a disease caused by a virus that infects birds ... of domesticated poultry, cattle, sheep and goats maintain high standards of biosecurity ...

Since 2024, the initiative has administered more than 4.2 million doses of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) vaccine, primarily in counties with large populations of sheep and goats. Counties ...

these clinical signs may mimic other common neurological diseases of sheep and goats such as lead toxicity, listeriosis, brain abscesses due to Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, Clostridium ...

Researchers in the Bitterroot Valley have seen significant mortality in bighorn sheep over the winter, with all collared rams ...

Discovery of H5N1 in a sheep enlarges the list of nonbird animals now known to be susceptible to the virus. In the U.S. that list includes cows, pigs, domestic and wild cats, coyotes, bears ...

“Further official testing of the remaining flock of sheep at the premises, including the lambs of the affected ewe, were negative for the presence of avian influenza virus.” Britain’s chief ...