While humans can contract bird flu, UNLV professor and epidemiologist Brian Labus says the latest strains are “not a general ...

Plagued by drought and high feed costs, Nevada’s beef cattle industry is struggling. Cash receipts from the industry — ...

Scientists say a concerning genetic mutation has appeared in H5N1 bird flu infected cats living in a New Jersey suburb of New ...

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) first confirmed the virus, genotype D1.1, was found in Nevada dairy cattle Jan. 31. All previous detections in dairy cattle were a ...

More important, he said, the D1.1 version of the strain — which has been detected in Nevada dairy cattle and one person living in the state — is “changing the landscape. ... [P]eople may be ...

The Central Nevada Health District said Monday that an adult was exposed to infected dairy cattle while working at a farm in the northwestern part of the state. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The CDC has sequenced bird flu viruses from people in Nevada and Wyoming, and the Trump Administration has released a ...

Last week, USDA and Nevada’s Department of Agriculture announced a detection there of H5N1 in dairy herds. Since it was first discovered that bird flu viruses were infecting cows and spreading ...