The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was devastating a flock of chickens on a highly secure farm, home of a breeding program that produced hybrid birds with specially colored feathers and eggs.

Holstein calf feeds from a bottle of colostrum milk. UC Davis researchers have found that acidification of waste milk can kill H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu. (Richard Van Vleck Pereira / UC ...

This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird populations since January 2022, and in March of last year, it was found in dairy cows for ...

Blood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the virus is capturing, according to a new study by federal and state disease ...

Cats infected with H5N1 can develop severe and fatal illness. We don’t know much more. There is minimal surveillance at state or national levels in the U.S. for companion animal infectious ...

Scientists from Australia's La Trobe University have found that despite mutations and evolution of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, which has decimated wild bird ...

Rats in Riverside County are the latest mammal species to be infected with H5N1 bird flu Identification of virus in rats raises concerns about potential infection pathways to people and their pets ...

Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, pasteurization can be expensive and fewer than 50% of large dairy farms ...

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu Health officials say she was likely infected via handling sick birds in a backyard flock The woman is “an older adult” with “other ...

Researchers have found that acidification can kill H5N1 in waste milk, providing dairy farmers an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to pasteurization. Pasteurization is the only widely ...