Live bird flu virus has not been found in any of the first batch of retail milk samples tested, federal health officials said Friday.
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows, the early findings should reassure the public that the milk sold in stores remai...
Bits of bird flu virus have been discovered in roughly 20% of retail milk samples tested in a national survey, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
As bird flu continues to spread among dairy cows in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it will start requiring testing of the animals if they are moved across state lines.
The "USDA has identified [bird flu] spread between cows within t...
Bits of inactive bird flu virus have been discovered in samples of pasteurized milk from across the United States, health officials said Tuesday, although they stressed the viral fragments don't threaten humans.
However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did note tha...
The H5N1 avian flu virus that's infecting U.S. cattle is increasingly showing up in mammals -- a dangerous sign that it could someday easily infect people.
That's the warning issued late last week by World Health Organization chief scientist Dr. Jeremy Farrar, CNN
A Texas plant full of egg-laying hens has been shut down temporarily after bird flu was detected in the animals.
Cal-Maine Foods, the largest egg producer in the country, said in a news release issued Tuesday that it...
An unnamed person in Texas had been diagnosed with the H5N1 avian flu after close contact with infected dairy cattle, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
It's only the second case ever confirmed in the United States (the first was in Col...
Milk from dairy cows in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico has tested positive for the presence of bird flu, U.S. officials say.
In a news release issued Monday, the U.S. Departmen...
Tests done on a Chilean man infected with bird flu showed signs that the virus has partially adapted to spread between mammals. However, the public health risk still remains low, U.S. health officials say.
“Those genetic changes have been seen previously with past H5N1...
A strain of avian (bird) flu appears to be killing seals off the New England coast, heightening fears among scientists that mammal-to-mammal transmission could be happening.
If so, it would be a step towards something health experts have long dreaded: A strain of H5N1 ...
Two cases of bird flu in Cambodia, in a girl and her father, were not spread from one to the other.
Both got the virus from poultry, according to health officials, easing concerns about a potential public health crisis, the Associated Press reported.
The 1...
U.S. health officials are considering using vaccines in poultry to stem an ongoing outbreak of bird flu.
Scientists will begin testing the first vaccines for birds in years as the spread of avian influenza has killed about 58 million birds, according to the
The first U.S. case of bird flu in a human has been confirmed in Colorado, federal and state health officials reported Thursday.
Still, the risk to the general public is low, the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed.
The patient, a 40-year-old ma...
Mass cullings have been implemented as a highly contagious form of avian flu has swept across the eastern half of the United States in recent weeks, killing both farmed poultry and...
A man in China has been hospitalized with the H5N6 strain of avian flu, which is one of several potentially dangerous strains that can infect humans.
The 55-year-old man came down with a fever and tested positive for the virus on July 6. He was hospitalized in Bazhong, a...
Raising chickens in your backyard -- a popular trend during the COVID-19 pandemic -- holds risks that can come home to roost in an unwelcome way.
It's already well known that poultry can spread the salmonella bacteria to human handlers. But chickens cooped up in backyard...
It's not too late to get your flu shot, which can protect you in ways that may surprise you.
The flu vaccine can be a lifesaver for people with heart disease, according to infectious disease specialist Dr. Michael Chang, assistant professor of pediatrics at Universit...