With egg prices spiking due to bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced steps last week to control the H5N1 virus, such as increasing financial relief for farmers with affected ...

Holstein calf feeds from a bottle of colostrum milk. UC Davis researchers have found that acidification of waste milk can kill H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu. (Richard Van Vleck Pereira / UC ...

Blood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the virus is capturing, according to a new study by federal and state disease ...

Rats in Riverside County are the latest mammal species to be infected with H5N1 bird flu Identification of virus in rats raises concerns about potential infection pathways to people and their pets ...

The first case of the bird flu in a New Jersey cat was confirmed Friday by public health officials, who said the feline had ...

In this NEJM Outbreaks Update, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by veterinarian and virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka to discuss avian influenza and its current ...

Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in ...

A growing number of California cats and an unknowable population of free-roaming “community cats” have been contracting avian flu, or H5N1. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Cats infected with H5N1 can develop severe and fatal illness. We don’t know much more. There is minimal surveillance at state or national levels in the U.S. for companion animal infectious ...

This is Iowa’s fourth detection of H5N1 HPAI within domestic birds in 2025. H5N1 HPAI is a viral disease that affects both wild and domestic bird populations. H5N1 HPAI can travel in wild birds ...

TWO more indoor cats in the US have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after eating potentially contaminated food, health officials have revealed. The owners say they fed their cats Wild Coast Raw ...