The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. "Holy cow," says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the ...

A recent study found that live bird flu virus (H5N1) can survive in raw milk for over a week when refrigerated, and more than 24 hours at room temperature.

Since April 2024, there have been a total of 61 reported human cases of H5 bird flu reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bird flu timeline Jan. 6: A patient in Louisiana died of H5N1 bird flu. The patient was over 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions. It is the first U.S. death from an H5N1 ...

The Davis lab is the only entity in the state with the authority to confirm bird flu cases. The union, known as UPTE, represents about 20,000 researchers and other technical workers across the ...

Since 2022, the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in all 50 states, leading to more than 1,700 recorded outbreaks affecting nearly 175 million birds.

The outbreak followed another that killed or forced the euthanasia of 95% of Hickman’s Family Farms’ Arizona hen population, totaling about 6 million dead birds over two weeks.