In what the US Department of Agriculture sees as a sign that its protocols are working, bird flu has been found in beef tissue for the first time at a federally inspected meat processing plant. The virus was found in tissue from a dairy…
Review of research to-date suggests vaccination remains the most effective strategy for avian influenza prevention and control in humans, despite varying vaccine efficacy across strains.
More than 4 million chickens in Iowa have to be killed after the highly pathogenic bird flu was found at an egg farm, state officials announced Tuesday. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship said the H5N1 bird flu virus…
Bird flu has been found in alpacas for the first time, marking the latest spread of the current H5N1 bird flu virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday. The infected alpacas were at a farm in Idaho, where the avian…