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.

Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone was ...

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

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 ...

The resident had recently returned from West Africa. Iowa health officials say the risk of transmission is "incredibly low." Also in the news, locally acquired malaria, "walking pneumonia" in children ...

Iowa is the nation's largest producer of ... more than 100 million poultry birds in the nation's worst-ever bird flu outbreak.