COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

In outbreak developments, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from H5N1 vaccines.

No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in cats are continuing, and new research is raising concerns about the virus ...

Officials are urging pet owners not to feed their pets raw food or raw milk and to avoid letting them roam outside.

The state’s 2024-2025 influenza season is the worst since Oregon Health Authority began tracking the virus 15 years ago, with ...

Since 2022, the USDA reports more than 150 million chickens and turkeys have been lost to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...

For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey ...

Don't take down birdfeeders. Here are ways you can help stop the spread of avian influenza, also known as bird flu.

The songbirds you are attracting to your feeders, such as cardinals, sparrows and woodpeckers, are not likely to be infected ...

Perhaps for the first time in the country, cats have been found infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu (avian influenza) ...