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

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

In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, chickens stand in their cages at a farm near Stuart, Iowa. Canada's Public ... teen did ...

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag ...

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

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 ...

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

He also detailed USDA’s new milk testing program to prevent the spread of avian ... outbreaks. Vilsack said the virus can show up in the milk before an animal shows any symptoms of the flu.

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

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

H5N1 bird flu has been discovered in a pig in Oregon, a development that has sparked new concerns among infectious disease ...

Oregon officials announced Wednesday that a severe form of bird flu has been detected for the first time in a pig on a small farm in Crook County in central ...