Projections for Brazilian chicken exports this year will likely be revised upward as numerous outbreaks of avian influenza reduce supply in competing exporters and importing nations, a group representing domestic processors said on Tuesday.
The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it's purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian influenza for those most at risk from being exposed to the virus by infected animals.
In March 2024, for the first time in the United States, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was recognized as having crossed over from birds into cattle. Experts believe the virus was transmitted a month or two beforehand from birds to dairy cows in the Texas panhandle,
In an effort to lessen the burdens caused by these conditions, the Ohio Treasurer’s office will be offering an enhanced Ag-LINK application window for commercial poultry farmers in counties affected
Ducks and turkeys are lost in the latest wave of confirmed avian flu cases. The presence of (HPAI) was confirmed in four commercial flocks in Indiana on February 25. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported that between the four flocks,
A team of Kansas State researchers, including regents and university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology Juergen Richt, found that bovine H5N1 influenza virus is primarily spread via milk,
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is going to start testing raw cow milk Monday for avian influenza. Dairy Inspection Division Director Dr. Nicole Neeser says Minnesota farmers won’t need to do anything extra.
The highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County, according to a Wednesday press release from Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
A harbor seal named Blue at Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford died earlier this month of the bird flu. The zoo announced Wednesday on social media that a diagnostic test revealed Blue died from complications from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).
AIM ImmunoTech Inc. (NYSE American: AIM) (“AIM” or the “Company”) today announced that Paul Goepfert, MD, of the University of Alabama-Birmingham (“UAB”), has agreed to act as the Principal Investigator for the company’s planned clinical study in the combination of Ampligen and AstraZeneca’s FluMist as an intranasal vaccine for influenza,