After Gov. Gavin Newsom last week declared an emergency stemming from bird flu’s spread in dairy herds, local public health officials are urging North Bay residents and consumers to heed some basic safeguards.

Oregon cat dies after eating raw pet food tainted with H5N1 bird flu virus. L.A. County officials urge pet owners to avoid raw meat and raw pet food brands.

Health officials were warning residents Wednesday not to feed their pets raw food following a voluntary recall of Northwest Naturals Brand 2lb Feline Turkey Recipe Raw & Frozen Pet Food due to detection of H5 bird flu virus in product samples.

Two more cases of bird flu have been found in Norfolk, taking the number of recently confirmed cases in the county to 10. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said following further testing the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus had been confirmed in commercial poultry at a premises near Hingham,

For the second time in less than two weeks, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in Ottawa County.