A chicken egg-laying operation in Sioux County in northwest Iowa detected the state's first bird flu outbreak of 2024 in May. About 23 million birds have been destroyed in Iowa since 2022 to ...

2024 timeline of bird flu cases confirmed in Iowa. May 28: A commercial egg-layer operation with 4.2 million chickens in Sioux County. This was the first case of bird flu in poultry for 2024. June ...

Iowa reported its first outbreak in dairy cattle on June 5.It has been detected in red foxes and Virginia opossums in Iowa, according to the USDA. Is bird flu deadly? Bird flu is often deadly for ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

Last week, an egg farm in Iowa's northern neighbor Minnesota was also hit by the avian flu, affecting just under 1.4 million of the birds.At the same time, more than 81,000 commercial turkey meat ...

A year ago, the H5N1 strain of bird flu was first found in U.S. cows. Since then, there have been cases in herds in 17 states, including 13 in Iowa.

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

The Iowa Department of Ag and USDA said the highly pathogenic avian flu was detected in O'Brien County, Iowa in the northwest part of the state. This case marked the 83rd confirmed case of bird ...

Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research facility in Iowa where 43 scientists work with pigs, cows and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently ...

The spread of avian influenza in Iowa among birds has increased in recent weeks. As of Monday, the state had reported eight flocks — totaling about 6.8 million birds — where bird flu had been ...

After more than five months without a new outbreak, the Iowa Department of Agriculture has reported three outbreaks of bird flu in commercial poultry flocks in the last few days. The new outbreaks ...