NEW YORK (PIX11) — The first fully FDA-approved at-home test kit to combine COVID-19 and flu tests is now available. It’s called the Healgen rapid test. The test kit is approved outside of emergency ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has signed an agreement with Alveo Technologies to develop a handheld avian ...

The genetic sequence of the H5N1 bird flu virus that infected a teenager in British Columbia shows that the virus had undergone mutational changes that would make it easier for that version of H5N1 to ...

Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says. The ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

Exciting news for agriculture as UC Davis unveils plans for a cutting-edge Ag Research and Technology Center. USDA's latest ...

Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

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IARN – USDA will test the milk supply beginning with states where dairy cattle tested positive in the spring for the H5N1 bird flu virus. Bird flu is an increasing concern for USDA, amid H5N1 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the agency is planning to enhance testing and monitoring for H5N1, building on ...

CHICAGO, Nov 3 — Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities in Washington and ...

The first confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza in a U.S. pig has been reported by the USDA. The infected pig, part of a backyard farm with mixed livestock, showed no illness but tested positive.