AUSTIN, Texas — State officials have confirmed cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) – also known as bird flu – ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...

The University of Maryland and USDA Agricultural Research Service researchers have secured $648,881 to develop a nasal vaccine that can prevent H5N1 bird flu in dairy cows. The funding comes from the ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous bird ...

Health officials in Mexico say a 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is the country’s first confirmed human case of bird flu.

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...

Maryland on Nov. 4, 2009. Along with regulating consumer products, including pet food, the FDA provides approvals for vaccines and tests that are critical to the federal bird flu response.

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told us in an email. Meanwhile, Kennedy left out important context about the risk of bird flu. And he ...