State officials said the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu is already responsible for the death of 17,000 farm chickens, either directly from the disease or due to cautionary culling. Veterinary officials ...

Since 2022, bird flu has swept through the U.S. poultry industry, resulting in the killing of around 170 million chickens, turkeys and other birds to contain the disease and severely affecting ...

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across ... He went on, "But the more cases that you have, whether that is in chickens or cows or people, the more of those random events are occurring ...

With over 1.5 billion chickens in the U.S. at any one time, there are a lot of birds coming in and out of farms. The latest bird flu outbreak, which has persisted in the U.S. since 2021 ...

When a poultry farm tests positive for bird flu, the clock starts. Within the first 72 hours, farmers start depopulating, an industry term for killing contaminated flocks. Despite the sweltering ...

The disease has led to the deaths of over 400,000 chickens to prevent its spread in Delaware as of February. One person in the country has died from H5N1 bird flu, and 70 cases have been confirmed ...

The State Board of Animal Health announced Wednesday it has quarantined a Porter County backyard/hobby flock of 360 chickens due to suspected HPAI — the first new Indiana bird flu quarantine in ...

It is the same influenza that has been killing off millions of chickens in the U.S., leading to the price of eggs skyrocketing over the last few months. Variants of bird flu have been around for ...

Essentially the idea, for which the secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins has also voiced support, seems to be that survivors might become super chickens with innate resistance to bird flu.

With one leg in the scientific realm and the other in public outreach, Cartanza also grows organic chickens in Kent County. Cartanza has seen bird flu from all angles and is an ideal go-to person on ...