Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill nearly 6.8 million infected chickens and turkeys, ...

In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy cattle — ...

The U.S. has documented the second case of bird flu in 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. Health officials identified the avian influenza case in a Michigan ...

Diary cows in multiple states have the bird flu, which is impacting milk. But is it safe to drink? According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the bird flu is causing cows in eight ...

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...