Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a ... Pigs are one of the few animals in which an avian virus can replicate to become more like a human virus, said Richard Webby, a St. Jude ...

A commercial poultry flock in Cache County tested positive for avian bird flu earlier this month, forcing the culling of an estimated 1,852,900 chickens, according to the Utah Department of ...

FILE - This 2005 electron microscope image shows an avian influenza A H5N1 virion ... A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday.

Avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, is a highly contagious viral disease, caused by the influence type A virus (H5N1). It mostly affects wild waterfowl such as ducks and geese but has ...

Avian influenza, also called bird flu or H5N1, first appeared two years ago among commercial and backyard poultry. In March, the virus was found in U.S. dairy cattle. Since then, more than 330 dairy ...

The National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in one of five pigs living on a small farm in Crook County where 70 affected backyard birds ...

If one can point to anything good about the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle — to be honest, there’s nothing good about this situation — it’s the timing. Transmission of the virus ...

It’s been more than six months since the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that dairy cows in Texas and Kansas had, for the first time, tested positive for a kind of avian flu ...

A July 22 email suggests that people might have infected their domestic cats with the bird flu, also called HPAI, for “highly pathogenic avian influenza,” but epidemiologists couldn’t ...

The affected birds will not enter the food system, ODA said, noting that "avian influenza does not affect poultry meat or egg products when properly cooked and remains safe. Both wild and domestic ...

Avian flu also has been detected in at least 27 people in the U.S., including nine cases associated with exposure to infected birds and 17 associated with sick or infected dairy cows, according to ...