Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

While politicians pose in front of barns, tractors and fields for campaign ads, meaningful agricultural security policy sits ...

The story of bird flu in this country could have been shorter. ... H5N1, meanwhile, is a flu virus that scientists have been ...

The story of bird flu in this country could have been shorter. ... H5N1, meanwhile, is a flu virus that scientists have been studying since the 1990s, when it was first detected in Chinese fowl.

Bird flu, also known as H5N1, avian influenza, or avian flu, is an infection that can affect the lungs, nose, and throat. It is caused by a virus naturally spread through wild birds to other ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

A devastating U.S. bird flu outbreak and wider trade tensions with Washington have limited Chinese appetite for American poultry. China now blocks poultry from more than 40 U.S. states over bird ...

The contemporary version that is killing American bald eagles was discovered in Chinese geese about 1996. Although the United States faced a major outbreak of avian influenza in 2014 and 2015, it ...

Brazil confirms its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial poultry farm, leading to a 60-day ban on poultry imports from China. The outbreak is in Rio Grande do Sul, a state responsible for 15% ...

The current outbreak of avian flu is said to be responsible for the death of at least 100 million birds since the start of the most recent outbreak in 2022, including 22 million in the last month ...

Late that year, highly pathogenic avian influenza reached North America. The impact was immediate and devastating. In 2022, the number of occupied nests plunged 50 percent.