U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag should work to ...

Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

The USDA is set to begin testing bulk raw milk for bird flu contamination in an effort to control the rapid spread of the virus. In addition to more ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks in his home state of Iowa at a press conference during the World Food Prize ...

as outbreaks of the virus led to significant reductions in egg-laying chickens. Meanwhile, a backyard pig in central Oregon’s ...

Avian flu deaths are mostly occurring in cackling geese in the Willamette Valley and wild ducks harvested by hunters. There ...

USDA officials said the infection occurred at a non-commercial farm and that the nation’s pork supply is not at risk.

Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, answers questions about the recent infection of a pig ...

It’s been detected in birds on every continent except Australia, seals in South America, foxes in Canada, as well as poultry, ...

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The infected pig was from a backyard farming operation that ...

A pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current risk to the public remains low.

Last week eastern Washington farm workers tested positive for bird flu after being in close contact with sick poultry. Pigs in Oregon tested positive this week.