Maricopa County faces repeated avian influenza challenges as another commercial egg facility reports significant bird ...

For the second time in eight days, a commercial egg laying flock in Maricopa County, Arizona, has been hit by the virus.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed a third H5N1 avian ...

Since the start of the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak on Feb. 8, 2022, 171.55 million birds have been affected.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is commonly called “bird flu.” This disease began in the mid-1990s in Asia and has ...

HPAI has had the greatest impact on pullets and egg-laying poultry, where bird housing density is higher, said Dr. Lisa ...

Bird flu has wiped nearly all of Hickman's Family Farms' chickens in Arizona, forcing the Southwest's largest egg producer to ...

The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) is lifting the temporary suspension on the exhibition or sale of poultry at swap meets, exhibitions, flea markets and auction markets. The suspension was ...

After euthanizing nearly 100,000 ducks following an avian flu outbreak, Crescent Duck Farm, a more-than-a-century-old ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has withdrawn a generous subsidy that the last administration provided to Moderna to help with ...

Most available vaccines for avian influenza in chickens are administered ... to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for HPAI response efforts. This was in addition to a previous ...

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce ...