The containment was discovered after a house cat in Washington County contracted H5N1, also known as the bird flu, and died after consuming the raw frozen pet food.

Washington County died after eating raw frozen pet food, the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Oregon State University confirmed. The Oregon Department of Agriculture released a statement ...

When, where and how the H5N1 bird flu virus may evolve and its capacity to spark a pandemic is hard to predict — in part, ...

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This month the California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency after epidemiologists confirmed the spread of bird ...

The bird flu outbreak has taken concerning turns, with more than 60 human cases confirmed. Experts outlined four signs that ...

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in ...

Prior to 2024, the only human case of H5N1 reported in the U.S. was reported in a poultry worker in Colorado in April 2022.

"H5N1 has expanded over the last few years," said Jason Kindrachuk, Canada Research Chair in the department of medical ...

The first severe human case of H5N1 in the U.S. and California's state of emergency are deepening concerns about the spread of the virus. How to prevent getting sick.

Bird flu variant H5N1 avian influenza affected about 700 ... and another in British Columbia in Canada have been infected by an unidentified source. Some governments have bought the vaccine ...

In North America there have so far been three human H5N1 cases without known exposure to animals in a Missouri patient; a teen who became critically ill in Canada; and a child with mild symptoms ...