H5N1 Flu

The disease has shown up on 30 dairy farms in Michigan and made several farmworkers sick, the state said.

The bird flu outbreak has spread to all 50 states, infecting dairy cattle, poultry farms and 61 humans across the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called it the first severe case in the U.S., though the risk to most of the public is still low.

A Louisiana patient has been hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 virus infection—the first U.S. instance of severe illness linked to the avian flu and the first linked to a backyard flock. 

Skipping pasteurization carries real risks.

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The virus has spread rapidly in California, the nation’s largest producer of milk. Farmers are frustrated that their herds are getting infected despite various precautions.

County public health officials are warning San Diegans not to eat or drink raw milk products or give them to their pets because of the heightened risk for H5N1, or bird flu.

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Pathologists are encouraged by laboratory preparedness for the bird flu but are worried about the number of infected animals in the country.

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Keith Poulsen's jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has issued a statewide recall of raw milk produced and packaged by Valley Milk Simply Bottled after H5N1 bird flu virus was found in samples from a bulk tank at the company’s dairy farm.

Manitoba has confirmed its first case of avian influenza in domestic birds for 2024 at a commercial poultry operation in Portage la Prairie.

As government agencies prepare for a potential shutdown, questions about a potentially burgeoning H5N1 bird flu pandemic are top of mind for many public health and agriculture officials.

While the risk of a H5N1 pandemic in humans is low, ‘it’s really important to think about vulnerable populations’, says Melbourne researcher

Learn why humans may be at low risk, but cattle are highly susceptible to a recently emerged genotype that is not yet well understood.

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has been spreading through US dairy cattle herds since March, affecting at least 16 states.

Infectious disease doctors break it down.

Although the origin of the infection in Louisiana is still under investigation, it has been determined that the patient was exposed to sick

H5N1 avian flu emergency