Bird Flu

U.S. orders cow testing for bird flu after grocery milk tests positive

The Agriculture Department is ordering the dairy industry to test milk-producing cows for infections...

us | 5 months ago

Pasteurization working to kill bird flu in milk, early FDA results find

Preliminary results of tests run by the Food and Drug Administration show that pasteurization is wor...

us | 5 months ago

Bird flu risk prompts warnings against raw milk, unpasteurized dairy products

Pasteurization is working to kill off bird flu in milk, according to tests run by the Food and Drug ...

us | 5 months ago

More than half of cats died after drinking raw milk from bird flu-infected cows

More than half of cats around the first Texas dairy farm to test positive for bird flu this spring d...

us | 5 months ago

Ground beef tested negative for bird flu, USDA says

Tests of ground beef purchased at retail stores have been negative for bird flu so far, the U.S. Dep...

us | 5 months ago

CDC says bird flu viruses "pose pandemic potential," cites major knowledge gaps

Bird flu continues to appear to pose a "low risk to the general public" for now, the Centers for Dis...

us | 5 months ago

Bird flu risk to humans is low right now, but "things can change," doctor says

After bird flu jumped to dairy cows in March, the H5N1 virus has spread among cattle across nine dif...

us | 5 months ago

Influencers promote raw milk despite FDA health warnings as bird flu spreads in dairy cows

On May 7, health influencer Paul Saladino, M.D.. posted a video to his X account that promoted feedi...

us | 5 months ago

2nd human case of bird flu confirmed amid U.S. dairy cow outbreak

A Michigan farmworker has been diagnosed with bird flu, state health officials announced in a statem...

us | 4 months ago

Bird flu detected in beef tissue for first time, USDA says, but beef is safe to eat

Bird flu has been detected in beef for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced ...

us | 4 months ago

More than 4 million chickens to be killed in Iowa after officials detect bird flu on farm

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected among a massive flock of egg-laying ch...

us | 4 months ago

The bird flu vaccine is made with eggs. That has scientists worried.

Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They w...

science | 4 months ago

As FDA urges crackdown on bird flu in raw milk, some states say their hands are tied

Officials in two of the three states probing their first cases of bird flu in dairy cattle this mont...

us | 4 months ago

Human bird flu infection confirmed in India amid concern over avian flu outbreaks in U.S. farm animals

New Delhi — As a string of recent bird flu cases in U.S. cattle and poultry in several states draws ...

world | 4 months ago

FDA says new study proves pasteurization process kills bird flu in milk after all

A pasteurization approach widely used in the dairy industry proved to be effective at killing bird f...

us | 3 months ago

3 Colorado poultry workers test presumptively positive for bird flu

Three poultry workers from a farm in northeast Colorado are suspected to have contracted bird flu, s...

us | 3 months ago