The CDC notes that the poultry worker from Ohio had been hospitalized with respiratory and nonrespiratory symptoms.

CONFIRMED: H5N1, Bird Flu, Has Been Found In A New Jersey Live Bird Market

INDIANAPOLIS – Avian Influenza, H5N1, or simply the bird flu, is continuing to cause problems for farmers across the state. Just within the last week, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health…

Argentina has confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in backyard poultry in the province of Chaco following laboratory analyses of

DAERA has confirmed today that it is investigating a further suspected case of bird flu in a commercial poultry premises in Co. Tyrone.

News on avian flu has been moving fast, and cases are still on the rise.

Nautilus looks at how commercial poultry creates perfect conditions

Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, poultry have tested positive for the virus in Australia, Nepal and Turkey.

In Indiana alone, 17 facilities tested positive for bird flu.------------------------------------------------------------------Read more on https://www.whas1...

The Trump administration is looking to move away from depopulating entire flocks infected by Bird Flu. The focus will instead be on biosecurity and medication to contain the outbreaks. Reuters reports that the USDA has given conditional

Deaths of millions of laying hens are causing grocery stores to ration supplies and restaurants to raise prices for egg dishes.

(WHTM) – The Centers for Disease Control says bird flu has affected multiple flocks in Central Pennsylvania. Bird flu was detected at a Lancaster County commercial broiler production flock of…

A Wyoming woman has been hospitalized with the bird flu after her backyard chicken flock contracted the disease and died, state and federal health officials said.

Bosnia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Tuesday, as a seasonal wave of the disease known...

Standard-Freeholder column on the latest of what's known and not known on avian flu and dairy cattle.

Over three years, the spread of the H5N1 virus has forced American farms to cull 158 million turkeys, chickens and, above all, laying hens.

“Right now, we’re fighting this virus with at least one, if not two, arms tied behind our back. And the vaccine can be a huge hammer in our toolbox.”

Vice president of Eggs Unlimited Brian Moscogiuri explains why egg prices will continue to soar as the bird flu outbreak slows production.

Dr. Michael Osterholm says that the primary kind of birds impacted by the flu is migratory waterfowl, like geese and ducks, and these birds often hang out in farm fields where they defecate.

A severe avian influenza outbreak has struck several provinces in China. Residents say infected chickens are still being allowed into the market. “We hope everyone pays attention,” pleaded Goose-Goose, a Chinese poultry farmer, in a recent video highlighting an avian flu outbreak impacting meat ducks and breeding geese in Shandong, Henan, and Hebei provinces. In […]

There is a new H5N1 avian influenza variant on the loose. It is dubbed D1.1 bird flu. Is it safe to eat eggs? How should you be cooking them?

Understanding the transmission routes of high-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) is crucial for developing effective control measures to prevent its spread. In this context, windborne transmission, the idea that the virus can travel through the air over considerable distances, is a contentious concept and, documented cases are rare. Here, though, we provide genetic evidence supporting the feasibility of windborne transmission. During the 2023-24 HPAI season, molecular surveillance identified identical H5N1 strains among a cluster of unrelated commercial farms about 8 km apart in the Czech Republic. The episode started with the abrupt mortality of fattening ducks on one farm and was followed by disease outbreaks at two nearby high-biosecurity chicken farms. Using genetic, epizootiological, meteorological and geographical data, we reconstructed a mosaic of events strongly suggesting wind was the mechanism of infection transmission between poultry in at least two independent cases. By aligning the genetic and meteorological data with critical outbreak events, we determined the most likely time window during which the transmission occurred and inferred the sequence of infected houses at the recipient sites. Our results suggest that the contaminated plume emitted from the infected fattening duck farm was the critical medium of HPAI transmission, rather than the dust generated during depopulation. Furthermore, they also strongly implicate the role of confined mechanically-ventilated buildings with high population densities in facilitating windborne transmission and propagating virus concentrations below the minimum infectious dose at the recipient sites. These findings underscore the importance of considering windborne spread in future outbreak mitigation strategies. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

The Ohio Department of Health is reporting the state’s first probable human case of bird flu.

This winter, a new version of H5N1 influenza, the same one behind a recent fatal case, has pummeled U.S. poultry

During the 2022-2023 winter season in South Korea, a novel clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 HPAIV was first detected in wild birds, which then subsequently caused multiple outbreaks in poultry farms and wild birds. This study aimed to investigate the genetic characteristics of H5N1 HPAIVs isolated during the 202 …

Though sustained human-to-human transmission has not been observed, infections have occurred after unprotected contact with infected animals.

More than 912,000 birds have been impacted following the detection of the Bird Flu virus at a commercial egg production facility in Jay County in east-central Indiana, according to the Indiana State Board of Animal Health. State

A bird flu-related shutdown of all live poultry markets in New York City, Westchester County and Long Island starts today.