A new study lends weight to fears that more livestock workers have gotten the bird flu than has been reported. “I am very confident there are more people being infected than we know about,” said ...

Ever wonder just how many pigs, chickens, turkeys, cattle, lambs and goats live in Iowa? The answer is many more than there are people in the state. And that’s just the pigs. Iowa raised about 53.4 ...

A case of H5 influenza, also known as avian influenza or bird flu, has been reported in a farm worker in Michigan who had regular exposure to infected livestock, according to the Michigan Department ...

The USDA has performed more than 17,000 tests for avian influenza on cattle, with a total of 67 herds affected throughout nine states. (Getty Images) Dairy farmers throughout the country are on guard ...

Michigan has become ground zero for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus that's sweeping the nation, killing turkeys, chickens and wild birds, infecting cows and other mammals – and now ...

Two dairy workers in California were infected with bird flu, the 15th and 16th human cases detected this year in an ongoing outbreak affecting the nation’s dairy cows, health officials said Thursday.

The recent spread of avian influenza in dairy cattle in the U.S. has startled even some scientists who've tracked a global outbreak of the virus over the last few years. “There’s a heap of unknowns ...

Salmonella Dublin is a type of bacteria that primarily infects cattle, but some strains also can adapt to infect humans. It is increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics, making it a growing ...

HAPPY AS A PIG IN MUD: Buncombe County Farm manager Don Collins cares for 18 pigs, who are all adoptable via Asheville Humane Society, at the county's barn in Black Mountain. Tiny tusks are visible on ...