Reports of bird-to-human infections are low (70 cases); at least one person has died. In mid-March 2025, US authorities recorded the first outbreak of another deadly form of the virus, H7N9 -- the ...

It takes infected farms months to dispose of the carcasses, sanitize their farms and raise new birds. But she expressed optimism that the plan will help prices. “It’s going to take a while to ...

Though H5N1 bird flu is hardly our only infectious-disease ... to deal with both the virus and high prices. That $1 billion plan includes importing eggs and funding for surveillance, enhancing ...

According to a new study, factory farm ventilation systems could worsen matters by facilitating the airborne transmission of bird flu. In April 2024, the USDA reported that bird flu was likely ...

Officials had hinted at the plan earlier this month. It’s not clear how much more farmers can do to keep the virus out. Egg and poultry farmers have already been working to protect their birds ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu will rely on money cut from programs meant to help schools and food banks support local farmers, according to two people ...

The state’s plans to curb the spread of avian malaria, which is decimating native bird populations, has been given a second ...

Tim Walz will share details on Wednesday about how the state is fighting the bird flu, which was recently ... its recently launched milk surveillance plan. The sample tested positive for the ...

The US Health Secretary wants to let bird flu spread across the nation's farms without intervention, and then breed the chickens that survive. Is it science or small government ideology?