🚨 Special Tools for Tomorrow Webinar Event 🚨 In response to the recent hantavirus outbreak, the NIAID-funded BRCs are hosting a special webinar Friday May 22nd focused on the 2026 hantavirus outbreak ...

NIAID-BRC AI Codeathon for Infectious Disease Research - November 12-14, 2025 at Argonne National Laboratory

Abstract. The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC; https://www.bv-brc.org) is a comprehensive resource supporting research on bacter

We are seeking mosquito biologists around the world who would be interested in collecting and contributing specimens of any vector species that currently lacks a reference genome. Aim: We are aiming ...

Avian influenza has caused the deaths of more than 300 million birds worldwide and the virus “is increasingly crossing species barriers”, according to UN health officers.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2024 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the start of its National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS), w...

An individual in British Columbia has tested presumptive positive for avian influenza (also known as bird flu) caused by the H5 influenza virus, the first detection of avian influenza due to the H5 vi...

There is no concern about the safety of the nation’s pork supply as a result of this finding.     Press Release  Contact: aphispress@usda.gov