Children enjoy chickens at a past Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee. Bird flu in January 2025 prompted a ban on ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Experts ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...

California county fairs and shows will no longer include poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions as the state deals with the ...

California has enacted a ban on all poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions at fairs and shows in response to the spread of H5N1 bird flu, according to the state Department of Food and Agriculture.  The ...

Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of ...

Researchers at Texas Biomed identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is ...

The California State Veterinarian announced a ban on all exhibitions of poultry and dairy cattle at fairs to minimize any ...

A dead wild bird in Austin was reported to have had bird flu, according to Austin Public Health and the Texas Department of ...

∎ Monitoring the virus and stopping transmission: Within a few weeks of the outbreak, USDA took action to stop the spread of the virus, issuing a federal order that mandated bird flu testing of all ...