The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since ... of 47,654 commercial broiler breeder chickens in Noxubee, Mississippi, was confirmed ...

What is bird flu? The H5N1 bird flu virus has spread among a variety of bird species, including chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, and many migratory wild birds. There have also been cases in humans ...

Joy O’Keefe, an associate professor and wildlife extension specialist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said the risk of bird flu for backyard chickens depends on a few factors.

For more than a year, I have followed news reports of the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu, or highly pathogenic ... time killed hundreds of millions of chickens and other birds to try to contain ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus ... The infection of 47,654 commercial broiler-breeder chickens was confirmed on March 13 by the World Organization for Animal Health ...

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $6 a dozen. But the move has been delayed ...

The latest report comes from the state of Nebraska where another 1,8 million chickens must be sacrificed ... Symptoms of bird flu in humans have previously ranged from eye redness and mild ...

causing more than 1,600 individual outbreaks and leading to the death or euthanasia of 166 million chickens, turkeys and other birds. While the most tangible outcome of bird flu for consumers has ...

but bird flu can linger in raw food if it’s sourced from infected poultry — for instance, from chickens that were culled due to an outbreak. “The animals that were depopulated could ...