Minnesota has reported its first case of bird flu in dairy cows as the virus spreads across the US. Minnesota has reported its first case of bird flu in dairy cows as the virus spreads across the US.

The US government is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations to fund a late-stage trial of Moderna's mRNA bird flu vaccine amid the outbreak spreading in dairy cows.

Iowa has announced its first bird flu outbreak, discovered at a 4.2 million-chicken commercial egg-laying business in Sioux County.

The US and Europe are considering acquiring or producing H5N1 bird flu vaccines to protect poultry and dairy workers.

Bird flu has been detected at an Australian egg farm, putting it on lockdown amid worries that it is a strain causing catastrophic poultry deaths and the potential source of the next global pandemic.

US health and agriculture authorities commit almost $200 million to address a bird flu outbreak in dairy cows across nine states.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been found in raw milk from infected animals in significant amounts. However, it is still unclear how long the virus cans survive in milk.

China has reported the death of a 63-year-old woman from Anhui province due to combined H3N2 and H10N5 strains of bird flu.

The French foie gras industry is forced to pause production of the delicacy until all farms are cleaned and disinfected. The new safety measures come from the discovery of the H5N1 virus found in a farm in southwest France.

With new reports of avian flu outbreaks, the fragile Chinese economic recovery is now under fire. A couple of cities in mainland China have stopped the conduct of poultry sales and slaughtered livestock after reports of the H7N9 strain of avian infulenza abound.