South Africa has reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the ...

A strain of bird flu that has jumped from animals to people in the United States could find its way to Europe, EU scientists ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

Sampa has warned that processed meat producers will soon run out of MDM because of a disagreement between South Africa and ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has lifted the temporary ban it slapped on poultry products from six states in the United States. Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. signed Memorandum ...

Hickman's Family Farms plans to lay off at least 85 employees in August after an avian flu outbreak forced them to euthanize 6 million chickens.

The United States has confirmed the virus in about 10 times as many commercial and backyard flocks since 2022, the USDA said. About 175 million U.S. chickens, turkeys and other birds have been culled.

Brazil's vast and diverse geography, with the Amazon to the north, mountain ranges along the Atlantic coast and the Andes to its west, may have helped it avoid the U.S. fate of widespread bird flu ...

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Measles outbreaks. A canceled effort to develop a bird flu vaccine. An infectious new COVID variant and changing federal guidance about who should get boosted. In recent weeks, drama in D.C. has ...

Cambodia's health ministry today announced another human H5N1 avian flu case of the year, involving a 5-year-old boy from ...

Drinking water, eye drops, and injections are used to vaccinate birds if one ever becomes available in the United States. Dairy cows are more of a priority for a bird flu vaccine.