The study provides growing evidence of the threat it poses even when cats have no direct exposure to sick dairy cows or poultry.

The Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that it’s trying to hire back fired employees who’d been working on the government’s response to bird flu ― a growing outbreak that’s caused egg prices to soar,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired multiple agency employees that were working on a response to the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, according to NBC News. Now the agency says that it is trying to rehire those workers as quickly as possible.