The USDA's update said that the rats were likely infected after exposure to birds sick with avian flu on nearby farms.

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

Millions of migratory birds, including most of the sandhill crane population, make their way through Nebraska every spring.

Life science companies developing bird flu vaccines are gaining attention as the avian influenza subtype H5N1 becomes an ...

A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dairy cows. It's a genetic change that scientists say ...

Lessons learned from COVID-19 prepared the U.S. for the next viral scourge, but much of that progress is at risk of being unraveled, experts say.

A further 25 poultry flocks were infected with the H5N1 HPAI virus serotype, according to the national veterinary agency’s ...