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

Almost from the beginning of the spread of H5N1 bird flu among farms and ranches in the U.S. earlier this year, experts and ...

Health officials began providing the safety gear long before the first human case in California was announced in October.

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

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

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

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Influenza viruses have several features that make them well suited for this: for one, they constantly mutate in a process ...

The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to H5N1.

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

NEW YORK -- A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It's ...