Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

This suggests that underlying health factors, as well as nutrition and management, likely play a role in the severity of the ...

HPAI cases have been reported in poultry and wild birds across Asia from Israel to Japan and South Korea. South Korea has ...

Health officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri ...

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The infected pig was from a backyard farming operation ...

Oregon state and federal officials confirmed Wednesday that H5N1 bird flu was found in a pig living in Crook County — the ...

As poultry farms and dairies across California battle bird flu outbreaks, some are wondering if their food is safe to eat. Since highly pathogenic avian influenza surfaced in the United States in ...

Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, ... Aug. 19, 2024 — The ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the USDA announced one of five pigs on a farm in Crook County, near Bend, Oregon has tested positive for avian flu, or H5N1.

A second commercial broiler poultry farm west of Springville in Tulare County was confirmed to have an outbreak of bird flu on Oct. 24. This outbreak affects an estimated 6,000 birds. On Oct. 16 ...

A case of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Pigs represent a ...