Earlier this year, as I began to report on bird flu, an outbreak was raging across farms in Ohio and Indiana. Over 18 million hens — 5% of America’s egg-laying chickens — were ultimately culled in a ...

California’s first bird flu outbreaks of the 2025-26 winter season have hit close to home. The owner of Reichardt Duck Farm, which sits in the rolling hills between Petaluma and the Two Rock area, ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reports that after a summer pause, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has returned in significant numbers. Since Sept. 1, another 3.88 million ...

DUBLIN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November. 10, following the first outbreak of highly ...

An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development has confirmed three more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Ottawa County. All three of the new ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed another outbreak of bird flu in a commercial poultry facility in Ottawa County. The outbreak, ...

Health officials say the situation is “serious” after a domestic worker was hospitalized in November. H7N9, an influenza virus that normally infects birds such as chickens and wild geese, first jumped ...

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