The Centers for Disease Control issued a health alert calling for the immediate testing of patients hospitalized with influenza A to quickly identify avian flu cases. The CDC's new guidance comes ...

WILLMAR-The despair that was felt in the Minnesota poultry industry this time last year-after nine million turkeys and chickens were wiped out in an unprecedented outbreak of highly pathogenic avian ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — There's a different kind of PCR testing that is whirring inside the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostic Lab. It is a part of the first defense line against the highly ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a federal order designed to slow the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in dairy cattle with mandatory testing and reporting requirements for transporting ...

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The first two human cases of H5N1 avian influenza in California were confirmed by CDC testing of specimens submitted by the state on Thursday, and a California-led investigation is underway. At the ...

ST. PAUL — A Stevens County juvenile goat residing on a farm with a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza positive poultry flock tested positive for the same virus. This is the first U.S. detection of ...

The hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay is commonly used to assess the humoral immune response against influenza A viruses (IAV). However, the microneutralization (MN) assay has been reported to ...