In February 2024, dairy farmers in Texas began noticing their cows were producing less milk and that the milk was discoloured ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...

An international team of researchers led by Professor Huaijun Zhou from the UC Davis Department of Animal Science has created ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry said ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today reported two more H5N1 avian ...

In Wyoming, 14% of all deer and elk tested last year were positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Wyoming Game and ...

Industrial animal agriculture poses a real threat to global health, so why are governments turning a blind eye?

A study in Ontario found no traces of influenza A viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) in 117 samples of pasteurized retail milk collected in April and May 2024, ...

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

Mexico detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, Reuters reported, citing the health ...

Computational modelling of immunoprotein interactions of variants of avian influenza has shown that H5N1 virus has begun to ...