A legal aid group that represents farm workers is suing the state agriculture department claiming it is not sharing the ...

Asymptomatic human avian influenza A (H5N1) infections occur, and person-to-person transmission is likely in some settings, ...

A dangerous type of bird flu virus (called H5N1) continues to circulate among dairy cows in the US. The virus targets the ...

Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November.

Ireland reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a turkey farm in the eastern part of the country, the ...

A protection zone has been set up after another case of bird flu in Norfolk was found at a large commercial poultry premises.

The Department of Agriculture has imposed a mandatory housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from 10 November, following the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm ...

Indiana agriculture officials said a new wave of bird flu has hit farms in the northern part of the state. As the state works to contain the spread of the virus, 13 farms in Elkhart and LaGrange ...

Families were reassured yesterday that turkey will still be on the table this Christmas despite a bird flu outbreak on two ...

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Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and ...

There have 873 human H5N1 cases since 2003, but an estimated 53 percent have been fatal. True to its name, avian flu symptoms are flu-like, which means high fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, ...