The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

Bird flu hasn't been found on any additional Victorian farms in a month, after multiple surveillance activities including property visits and bird collections.

Avian influenza viruses have infected the world’s birds for millennia. We first became aware of them in the 19th century, when mass deaths of poultry triggered interest in what was then called “fowl plague”.

Vulto Creamery was found to be the source of Listeria monocytogenes that sickened eight people, killing two of them

U.S. health officials have announced two more bird flu cases among farmworkers

As heatwaves hit the US, farm workers struggle to wear PPE. The country now faces its biggest human outbreak

Agriculture ministers have agreed to hold a national planning drill to make sure Australia is ready for the possible arrival of the deadly H5 bird flu strain.

Since May, a number of poultry farms around Australia have faced outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu. These outbreaks have been devastating for the poultry farms affected, necessitating large-scale culls, and have caused knock-on effects for the country’s egg supplies.

No evidence of human-to-human transmission has been documented, the CDC says.

An estimated five more bird flu cases have been reported in Colorado — this time from exposure to infected poultry

Colorado’s governor has declared a disaster emergency in response to the first cluster of human H5N1 infection on a single U.S. farm.

Four new cases of bird flu have been confirmed among poultry workers in Colorado, bringing the total number of cases in the U.S. to nine since the current outbreak was first detected in 2022.