More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

The continued outbreak of bird flu has resulted in the culling of more than 30 million poultry birds across nine states this year. That’s about 10 million more than the last quarter of 2024.

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

Chicken exports are returning to normal after a bird flu outbreak in Otago last year. Last December, New Zealand experienced its first confirmed case of avian influenza on an Otago egg farm and ...

Initially identified in China in 1996, the first major outbreak of H5 family avian flu occurred in North America in 2014-2015. This 2014 outbreak was caused by the H5N8 strain, a close relative of ...

The disease, commonly called bird flu, has spread around the globe in the past years, leading to the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry. The outbreak, detected in February on a farm in the ...

A total of 800 measles cases across two dozen states have been confirmed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Driving the expensive egg prices is the avian flu outbreak that has slaughtered more than 63 million birds since November. When the virus is found on a farm, the entire flock is killed to prevent ...

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 ...