In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

Zoetis received conditional USDA approval for an avian flu vaccine ... and conduct research on therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines. Local jurisdictions received funding to increase monitoring ...

The Iowa awards were part of an announcement from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS, of $15.3 ...

Word of the move came as the Iowa Department of Agriculture announced the detection ... on maintaining consistency in bird flu testing, managing funding for the lab network, and providing ...

The avian flu virus continues to affect poultry producers and dairy farms in 2025. In North Carolina alone, the virus has ...

Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, ...

In other H5N1 developments, the WHO releases surveillance guidance for human cases, and the USDA announces new funding to ...

As Delaware bird flu cases increase, funding and research on animal diseases have been affected by the Trump administration’s freeze on federal research grants, leaving researchers and Delaware ...

In February 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced allocation of up to $1 billion in additional funds to combat highly pathogenic avian flu, including support for biosecurity, financial ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota are studying the presence of avian influenza in dairy cattle. This research comes after the College of Veterinary Medicine received a $1.5 million ...