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The Minnesota Board of Animal Health announced today that testing has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a ...

Nearly half a year after the state's last detection of the virus, avian influenza has been found in a southern Minnesota turkey flock, according to animal health officials.

Vaccinating against avian influenza would be a costly, multistep process, said Carol Cardona, a University of Minnesota ...

Dairy cattle in 17 states have been infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 since the start of the outbreak in March 2024.

Officials and advocates say early detection, transparency and farm precautions are key to limiting risks to public health.

Federal health officials are warning that certain lots of raw cat food may be contaminated with H5N1 bird flu after a pet cat in San Francisco that ate the food became infected with the virus and had ...

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have developed a new, proof-of-concept vaccine to protect people from the bird flu strain currently circulating in the United States. The team, led ...

Human breast tissue may be capable of hosting — and passing on — bird flu. Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — In February 2025, a large number of cases of avian influenza were reported, prompting people to be informed about different precautions they needed to take. Presently, it is ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in Antarctica. The work, led by the University of Chile and the ...

After a hiatus last year to prevent the spread of avian flu, the milking parlor at the Iowa State Fair Dairy Barn is back in 2025. The return of the milking equipment was met Thursday, Aug. 7, by ...