WASHINGTON (Nebraska Examiner) - The deadliest outbreak of bird flu in U.S. history is prompting growing concern in Congress, and Department of Agriculture researchers are awaiting the preliminary ...
Bird flu has been making headlines over the past month, resulting in millions of bird deaths, driving up poultry and egg prices, and raising public concern over potential human infections. According ...
Nomura urged poultry growers nationwide and prefectural governments to “take maximum precautions” against bird flu. The culling number is the first to exceed 10 million in a single season.
Scientists have discovered H5N1 avian influenza viruses gained the ability to cause severe disease and target the brain in ...
Earlier this month, the WHO assessed the risk to humans from H5N1 bird flu as low, although its director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the recent spillover to mammals needed to be ...
On Thursday, scientists discovered the first casualty from the highly pathogenic avian influenza in a cackling goose.
But sometimes you can. While COVID-19 took the world by surprise, experts are keeping their eye on other potential outbreaks and right now there’s one prime candidate: bird flu. Scientists have been ...
Normally, bird flu outbreaks resolve in a matter of months. But this one has been going strong since late 2021.
Avian flu, or bird flu, refers to a group of diseases that result from infections with specific influenza viruses. These viruses infect birds but rarely spread to humans. One virus that causes ...
By Susan Solan Hormel Foods said Thursday its supply chain for turkey was disrupted by the recent bird flu outbreak, hurting its sales in the second ...
The Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) has received the results of laboratory tests that confirm bird flu in dead gulls found ...
USDA researchers are awaiting preliminary results of four trials of poultry vaccines for bird flu, which has affected 37,950 ...