South Africa also had outbreaks of bird flu in 2017 and 2021 ... He says there must be alignment between government and the industry on vaccination or compensation. “There must be an agreement ...

The poultry industry is still reeling from its 2023 annus horribilis where load shedding, water challenges, high raw material cost and the avian influenza outbreak materially impacted the industry.

Six health care workers in the US who were in close contact with a patient known to have bird flu developed mild respiratory ...

The United States has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1 in dairy cattle.

As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting $72 million toward strengthening its ...

STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...

Further testing could confirm whether the patient, who has since recovered, actually had bird flu despite testing positive.

Two infected dairy workers were from two different Tulare County farms, and both were showing mild symptoms. They were ...

Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the disease. Three manufacturers were awarded $72 million to increase ...

The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented bout of bird flu, also known as H5N1. Since 2022, the virus has killed ...

Antibody blood test results expected later this month may help answer a crucial question: Is there human-to-human transmission of the bird flu?

CHICAGO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - California, the biggest U.S. milk-producing state, on Thursday confirmed two human cases of bird flu in people who had contact with dairy cattle infected by the virus.