Almost a year ago, the H5N1 strain of bird flu was discovered in dairy cows for the first time. Since then, there have been confirmed cases in at least 976 herds across 17 states, including 13 herds ...

A second type of bird flu has been found in U.S. dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Wednesday. Until recently, all dairy herd detections in the U.S.

The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to grapple with another bird flu strain that has infected humans and ...

Type A H5N1 is known to infect birds and has sometimes infected people. Now it has surfaced in dairy cows in Kansas, New Mexico and Texas. Tests found bird flu in dairy milk from cows in Kansas and ...

A little-known variant of bird flu has evolved to become better adapted to infecting people and could pose a pandemic threat to humans, a team of researchers has warned.

Since it was first detected in the United States in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds to farm animals and then to people, causing more than 70 human ...