A chicken egg-laying operation in Sioux County in northwest Iowa detected the state's first bird flu outbreak of 2024 in May. About 23 million birds have been destroyed in Iowa since 2022 to ...

A year ago, the H5N1 strain of bird flu was first found in U.S. cows. Since then, there have been cases in herds in 17 states, including 13 in Iowa.

Last summer some cows, specifically dairy cattle, required testing for Avian Flu before being allowed into into the fair.

After more than five months without a new outbreak, the Iowa Department of Agriculture has reported three outbreaks of bird flu in commercial poultry flocks in the last few days. The new outbreaks ...

A Thursday press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about the department’s response to the highly pathogenic ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

The spread of avian influenza in Iowa among birds has increased in recent weeks. As of Monday, the state had reported eight flocks — totaling about 6.8 million birds — where bird flu had been ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will potentially announce a plan to vaccinate poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), according to media outlet Reuters.