Outbreaks include broiler farms in 3 states, as tests confirm more H5N1 in pet cats from 5 states.
The support is designed to speed development of well-matched H5N1 vaccines and pave the way for vaccines against other potential pandemic threats.
Shoring up pet food safety plans to account for H5N1 and enhanced preslaughter turkey flock surveillance comes in the wake of raw products linked to cat infections.
Federal officials also touch on the hand-off to the Trump administration, as tests confirm avian flu in several more poultry flocks and at a Chicago zoo.
Macaques exposed to doses of the 2.3.4.4b clade of H5N1 via the nose and windpipe had more severe disease.
The latest confirmation likely reflects follow-up testing of a San Francisco child whose exposure to the virus is still under investigation.
As sporadic H9N2 infections continue in China, rarer H10N3 infections in the past few years now total 4.
Tests results are pending for additional commercial raw pet food samples.
Officials are still investigating how the child contracted the virus. In other developments, the USDA today confirmed the first outbreak in Puerto Rico's poultry.
Also, Maryland reported a preliminary positive in a broiler flock, its first at a commercial farm since 2023.
