The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...

H5N1 is a strain of type A avian influenza virus, commonly referred to as bird flu. It primarily affects birds, especially farmed poultry such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is having a deadly effect on Michigan’s eagle population. A 2022 outbreak reduced breeding pairs. Now cases are going up again, and researchers are watching for a ...

A fourth commercial farm in Maricopa County has tested positive for bird flu. The virus was detected during routine surveillance, before any birds showed symptoms, the Arizona Department of ...

Understanding bird flu symptoms, transmission and bird flu prevention is essential for public safety.Understanding Influenza VirusesInfluenza viruses belong to the Orthomyxoviridae family and are ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...

In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

The Davis lab is the only entity in the state with the authority to confirm bird flu cases. The union, known as UPTE, represents about 20,000 researchers and other technical workers across the ...

Bird flu has spread around the world, even reaching Antarctica for the first time in 2024, in a threat to poultry flocks, wild birds and mammals, including U.S. dairy cows.

A recent study found that live bird flu virus (H5N1) can survive in raw milk for over a week when refrigerated, and more than 24 hours at room temperature.