A newly released map from Newsweek, leveraging data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), sheds light on the extent of bird flu outbreaks in poultry flocks across the country since 2022 ...

What's New Newsweek has created a map showing which states have recorded the most human bird flu cases, after the first human case of severe bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana. California, which ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the outbreak began in January 2022. One person has been killed.

The H5N1 bird flu virus has spread to dairy cows in the United States, raising concerns about its spread to humans.

Bird flu virus outbreak in backyard and commercial poultry Of the nine human cases of bird flu in the U.S. since 2022, five followed exposure to poultry. The other cases followed exposure to dairy ...

The current outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cows in the U.S. began in February 2022. Since then, eleven human cases of bird flu have been confirmed.

All 50 states have been affected by the bird flu outbreak that has infected more than 127 million wild aquatic birds, commercial poultry, and backyard birds since January 2022.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza can be transmitted among farms by wind, according to a recent study that found air-intake systems spread H5N1 in the Czech Republic.

What are symptoms of avian flu? There have been a total of 67 confirmed cases of bird flu in humans in the United States since 2024, according to the Center for Disease Control.

The current bird flu outbreak in the United States, featuring primarily the H5N1 strain, was first detected in wild bird flocks in January 2022, and in commercial poultry operations and backyard ...