France Steps Up Checks After Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak in Germany January 17, 2025 France has reinforced checks for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and issued alerts to veterinarians after an outbreak of the highly contagious...
Bird Flu Likely Mutated Within a Louisiana Patient: CDC December 30, 2024 A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case...
Oregon House Cat Died From Pet Food That Tested Positive for Bird Flu December 30, 2024 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon...
California Milk Output Down 9% in November on Bird Flu Outbreak December 23, 2024 By Ilena Peng California’s milk production in November plummeted as a bird flu outbreak spreads rapidly among herds in the country’s biggest dairy...
US Issues Order Mandating Bird Flu Testing of Milk Supply December 9, 2024 By Leah Douglas The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture...
Raw Milk Recall in California Expands After Tests Detect More Bird Flu Virus December 6, 2024 By Jonel Aleccia A California farm expanded a recall of raw milk sold in stores and halted production after state health and agriculture...
Midwest Chicken Farmers Struggle to Feed Flocks After Closure of Producer October 21, 2024 By Summer Ballentine Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken...
Missouri Patient Infected with Bird Flu Without Animal Contact September 10, 2024 A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or...
Scientists at Iowa Research Facility Race to Halt Spread of Bird Flu August 26, 2024 By Mary Conlon and Mike Stobbe AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A...
US Undercounts Bird Flu in Cattle as Farmers Shun Testing August 15, 2024 By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers’ reluctance to test...