Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

A family-owned farm near Chicago has fallen victim to a devastating outbreak of bird flu, losing its entire flock of nearly 3,000 hens to the disease. The owners of Kakadoodle Farm in Matteson ...

Bird flu wasn’t on Tim Hanson’s mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. “You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food,” he said. “It was finely ...

Letting bird flu run through poultry flocks is “not ... We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Secretary of Agriculture ...

Some of the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to support testing for the ongoing bird flu outbreak have been ... shuttering offices in Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle ...

Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handling of the federal response to bird flu, ...

And grocery stores may not have immediately passed on the lower prices. Bird flu outbreaks were cited as the major cause of price spikes in January and February after more than 30 million egg ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

The Cal Falcons are gone. Prices of eggs have cracked $9. Bird Flu is present here in the Bay Area.  From rising egg prices ...

Bird flu outbreaks were cited as the major cause ... A carton of eggs sit on a counter in the kitchen inside of 5 Rabanitos restaurant in Chicago, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y.