USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

OPINION: Avian flu, once limited to birds, is adapting to infect mammals, raising concerns about a new pandemic risk. With ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

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Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, and it won’t be the last. Should we be worried about frequent news reports ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

As the H5N1 avian influenza virus continues its rampage through U.S. dairy cow herds, it has also infected human farm workers ...

But if that were to happen, a pandemic could unfold, scientists have said. Earlier in November, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

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Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

A Texas case of H5N1 in a dairy worker revealed a virus capable of fatal transmission in ferrets, raising concerns about its ...