The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has launched a new online form for reporting Highly ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Thursday that it released an online platform for the ...

The U.S. hasn’t been able to control the spread of the H5N1 bird flu. And now, there’s been a reported outbreak in the U.S. of another strain of avian influenza, H5N9. This H5N9 outbreak ...

A surge in H5N1 virus cases among pets, particularly cats, has raised alarms about raw pet food safety. The virus, devastating bird populations nationwide since 2022, has infected cats through ...

The H5N9 strain was found at a California duck farm that has already lost nearly 119,000 birds to the more common H5N1 variant of the disease, which is formally known as Highly Pathogenic Avian ...

Suresh Mittal, Distinguished Professor of Virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, presented “Universal Influenza Vaccine — An Aspiration or Reality?” at the Westwood Lecture Series on Jan. 28.

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 -- and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

Bird flu or H5N1 avian flu has sounded alarm after first human death due to the infection was reported in USA this year. Experts are monitoring the situation and more research is underway ...