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

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 ...

Multiple FDA labs were cut amid Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs this week.

(Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Stories about bird flu decimating poultry farms and causing jumps in egg prices have been all across the news in recent months. Numerous dead birds that tested ...

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 ...

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Zoetis received conditional USDA approval for an avian flu vaccine. Major poultry and dairy organizations back vaccine use to control the virus. The Trump administration is rolling out a new ...

WASHINGTON — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...