Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Nearly two dozen U.S. senators urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a letter, to “prioritize” a vaccine strategy for the highly pathogenic avian influenza. The ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A vaccine under development at the University at Buffalo has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work, detailed in ...

Annual bird flu outbreaks are said to cost the UK government and industry up to £174m each year A poultry producer that has lost hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys to bird flu is leading ...

Since it was first detected in the United States in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds to farm animals and then to people, causing more than 70 human ...

Researchers at Kansas State University are working to adapt a bird flu vaccine originally developed for cattle to one that can protect poultry.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The first domestic human infection of H7 avian flu in Taiwan has been confirmed as H7N7.

Earlier this week, a turkey flock in Redwood County, Minnesota, tested positive for bird flu. It's the first positive test among commercial birds since April, and it has turkey farmers on alert. There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swabs from birds’ mouths are placed in tubes and tested for avian influenza virus. (Photo by Erica Spackman/USDA) Nearly two dozen ...