While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is troubling and points to the risk of a viral phenomenon known as ...

The owner of Long Island’s last remaining duck farm ... United States, that risk looms large for Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue. Avian influenza, a highly contagious and particularly lethal disease ...

is causing widespread fear and anxiety among farm workers," Antonio De Loera, the communications director for the United Farm Workers labor union, said in an email statement to The Star.

Corwin last month was forced to lay off 48 workers, some of whom had been with the farm for decades, and euthanize his entire flock of 99,000 birds after ... flocks in the United States since ...