Bird flu has been making its way through Iowa since late May. The first outbreak of 2024 was detected May 28 in a 4.2 million-chicken commercial egg-laying operation in northwest Iowa. The virus ...

USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

Get updates of all things Iowa politics delivered to your inbox. Since the start of the current bird flu outbreak in 2022, state and federal officials have required the destruction of 16.2 million ...

But Dr. Craig Rowles, President of the Iowa Poultry Association ... unlike the last outbreak. “No issues with the bird flu this year just thank the good Lord. I don’t ever want to go through ...

In other developments, Alveo Technologies announced an agreement with CDC to develop a rapid multiplex test for point-of-need ...

For the first time, a bird flu infection has been detected in a pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting ...

In Iowa, Naig says the flu has been confirmed ... when the bulk of the disease outbreaks occurred between farms. The 2015 outbreak of avian flu marked the largest animal disease outbreak in ...

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...

with an Iowa company arguing it shouldn’t be forced to disclose its pricing information. A central element of the case is whether a fabricated claim of a bird flu outbreak is to blame for one ...

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...