Health officials in Nevada have confirmed the state's first human case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in a person who had contact with infected dairy cattle, at a farm in Churchill County.

Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage people near farms to get tested for bird flu.

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) on April 9 reported two more H5N1 avian flu detections in US dairy herds, one in California and the other in Nevada, raising the United States' total ...

A 3-year-old girl from Durango, Mexico, has died from H5N1 Bird Flu, according to the World Health Organization. The child ...

A whole-genome sequence has detected highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy cattle in Nevada according to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories of the United States ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A strain, H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling ...

The risk to human health is expected to rise as H5N1 evolves to better infect mammals, the study finds. This rapid adaptation means that "an H5N1 vaccine made (for an earlier strain) will have ...

Nearby states with recent bird flu outbreaks, such as Nevada and Idaho ... which rules out infection with H5N1. The fact that no other human cases of H5N1 have been identified via subtyping ...