Scientists are tracking a deadly bird flu outbreak that has infected wild birds in more than 30 states. Purging the nation's poultry supply may not be enough to keep the virus from sticking around.

Like commercially farmed poultry, backyard chickens are also vulnerable to bird flu. Several factors contribute to the risk level, says Maurice Pitesky, an epidemiologist and veterinarian at the ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

More than 28 million poultry birds, like chickens and turkeys, have been lost in the U.S. because of a new bird flu. The virus either made the birds sick or they were culled to prevent its spread.

As the bird flu outbreak affecting poultry, dairy cows and humans in the U.S. continues to make headlines, here’s what to know about the situation as of January 23.. Human Cases. The U.S ...

The spread of a bird flu in the U.S. that is deadly to poultry raises the grisly question of how farms manage to quickly kill and dispose of millions of chickens and turkeys.. It's a chore that ...

HOUSTON — Bird flu has hit the nation’s poultry flocks hard and as outbreaks are discovered, one of the only weapons farmers have is culling entire flocks of birds. The results so far have not ...

Eggs and chicken meat are considered safe to eat, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture regularly checks farms for bird flu and chickens are put to death if the virus is detected on a farm.

Bird flu forces chickens into lockdown amid historic outbreak 03:37. Food prices in the U.S. are rising, but sticker shock at the grocery store is especially acute in the egg and poultry aisles ...

Bird flu is spreading among Colorado ... They bemoaned the loss of fundraising egg sales for the high school's Future Farmers of America, and worried about what the chicken cull might do to egg ...

Estimates vary on how many people have backyard chickens. But the number, regardless of who does the count, is significant. In 2023, an American Pet Products Association’s pet ownership survey ...