Farm workers facing possible arrest would likely resist getting tested for bird flu should there be a resurgence this fall, ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - While Vermont achieved an “unaffected” bird flu status in May, the state is continuing its monthly ...

Since a USDA-mandated testing program began over the winter, no samples from the state’s 411 Vermont dairy farms have tested positive.

E.B.Flory of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets explains how the state is testing milk across the state for the presence of bird flu at the University of Vermont Miller Dairy Farm ...

A USDA testing program has found that cows on Vermont's dairy farms do not have bird flu and that Vermont is unaffected by the virus.

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

A backyard flock in Vermont was sickened with H5N1, agricultural officials said on Thursday, following other reports of bird flu-related animal deaths this month beyond commercial farms and ...

Vermont agriculture officials are ramping up plans to test milk following a nationwide mandate from the USDA over concerns about the spread of bird flu.

Bird flu was confirmed in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds in Vermont last week, officials announced Thursday. The highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as H5N1 bird flu, was ...

New bird flu variant found in dairy cattle. Can H5N1 be transmitted to humans? According to the the US Department of Agriculture, this is the first ever detection of this bird flu virus variant in ...

The state is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu.

Milk produced in Vermont will soon be tested for bird flu as part of a new nationwide monitoring program. The testing protocol will likely begin sometime this month and comes in response to a ...