The soaring price of eggs is a ripple effect of an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza, also known as H5N1 or bird flu, which has spread from wild birds to dairy and poultry farms, infected cats, and ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported — a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms. State health officials announced the death on Monday ...

As local reports of dead birds rise, the greatest human risk continues to fall on some of the most vulnerable: farm workers.

For the past three years,a novel form of bird flu has wiped out millions of animals in the United States, from snow geese to backyard chickens.

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the Food ...