The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ramped up its fight against the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in ...

The nation’s milk supply must be tested for the bird flu virus H5N1 under a new order announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The rules require unpasteurized milk samples ...

Agency officials didn’t immediately detail the person’s symptoms. This colorized electron microscope image shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney ...

This came as no surprise to Mindy Brashears who served as USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety ... get into the meat or the food supply.” If H5N1 is ever detected in beef cattle that meat ...

A dairy farm in California has issued a voluntary raw milk recall after H5N1 bird flu was detected ... This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy ...

First, even now, in the waning days of the Biden administration, the effort to get ahead of the H5N1 outbreak in livestock is not succeeding. We’re under-testing for H5N1 and missing many cases ...

A microscope-enhanced image shows the H5N1 bird flu virus in cultured cells. (Centers for Disease Control and Convention via Associated Press) Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency ...

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread around the US, health officials recently found that 7 percent of dairy workers tested on farms in two states had evidence of recent infection — and some had ...