Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.
Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.
U.S. dairy cattle tested positive for a strain of bird flu that previously had not been seen in cows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently confirmed the deadly bird flu genotype responsible for ...
The USDA also began testing of milk nationwide to address bird flu outbreaks in dairy herds. The spread of bird flu among poultry flocks in the U.S. is also causing a spike in egg prices.
Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers ...
Egg prices have more than doubled over the last two years as a dangerous strain of bird flu has swept across the country.
Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have contracted H5N1 avian influenza and died from eating raw food contaminated with bird flu. Raw foods include unpasteurized milk, uncooked meat or ...
Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost ...