The avian flu outbreak has sent egg prices soaring — and increased profits for large corporate producers, which will gain ...

Flu can also trigger sepsis, an extreme, body-wide immune reaction. Runaway inflammation driven by sepsis can lead to tissue damage and fatal organ failure. Bird flu, or avian influenza ...

New York: Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, straining the federal capacity to monitor the spread of the ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts, according to researchers. This is a KFF Health News story. Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. "Holy cow," says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the Univer ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in New York City despite the state’s temporary live market shut down in February — and activists want a total closure of the slaughter houses. At least 4,180 ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry ...

Last year, 73,169 birds were depopulated in Wisconsin due to the virus. While bird flu has been sweeping through poultry flocks across the U.S. this year, Wisconsin recorded the disease in just four ...

Three USDA employees from the National Animal Health Laboratory Network accepted buyouts and will leave by April 30, potentially impacting bird flu monitoring. These departures come amid a push by ...