The Oregon Department of Agriculture said there are no cases of bird flu in Oregon livestock. The H5N1 virus can be transmissible through animal products such as uncooked meat and raw milk.

Some avian influenza viruses also affect dogs and other pets, including hamsters and guinea pigs. Oregon saw its first case of bird flu in December, in a cat that had eaten raw pet food. A second ...

Oregon state and federal officials confirmed Wednesday that H5N1 bird flu was found in a pig living in Crook County — the first such swine infection reported in the current outbreak.

As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday that six more human cases of infection: five in California and one in Oregon ...

“At this time, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of avian influenza and there was no risk of H5N1 for people in Oregon with this travel,” Modie said in an email Friday.

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

The strain of bird flu virus in the pig is slightly different from the one that has been plaguing dairy cows in California and other states, which is known as B3.13.

Public health experts are concerned that the first detection of H5N1 bird flu in a pig could mean the next step in human-to-human transmission of the virus.

A cat in Washington County has tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu, the Oregon Department of Agriculture announced Friday. The H5N1 virus, which has been spreading in wild and ...

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

Oregon has had 41 outbreaks that affected 907,000 birds and resulted in about 130 people being exposed to avian influenza, but there have been zero human infections. “The risk to the public ...

Public health officials in Oregon announced on Wednesday the first known case of H5N1 bird flu in a pig, raising new concerns about the growing risk of the virus being able to infect humans more ...