With egg prices spiking due to bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced steps last week to control the H5N1 virus, such as increasing financial relief for farmers with affected ...

Scientists from Australia's La Trobe University have found that despite mutations and evolution of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, which has decimated wild bird ...

This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird populations since January 2022, and in March of last year, it was found in dairy cows for ...

Cats infected with H5N1 can develop severe and fatal illness. We don’t know much more. There is minimal surveillance at state or national levels in the U.S. for companion animal infectious ...

Rats in Riverside County are the latest mammal species to be infected with H5N1 bird flu Identification of virus in rats raises concerns about potential infection pathways to people and their pets ...