The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

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 ...

Preliminary testing indicates a red fox taken to the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center from the town of Hamilton in Loudoun County ...

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.

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.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced last week bird flu struck a second backyard flock of chickens in the County.

According to the Department of Agriculture, wholesale egg prices dropped throughout the country in March. But retailers have not lowered the prices customers pay at the same rate.

Bird flu wasn’t on Tim Hanson’s mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. “You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food,” he said. “It was finely ...

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 ...