In March 2024, for the first time in the United States, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was ...

But there may be light at the end of the tunnel. The USDA reported last week that egg shortages are easing and wholesale ...

Researchers at Texas Biomed identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is ...

Less than two weeks on the job, the new Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is focused on the ...

Amid the continued spread of avian flu and high egg prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion plan to fight avian flu and lower egg prices. The new strategy comes two days ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is coming to Texas Monday to discuss concerns regarding avian flu.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is advising against vaccinating poultry as American farmers ...

We reached out to the Texas Animal Health Commission ... Backyard birds "are just as susceptible to the avian influenza virus" as birds raised in commercial farms, said the commission's Dawn ...

Properly cooking the eggs, keeping chickens separated can help reduce risks of getting bird flu from a backyard flock.

The avian flu virus continues to affect poultry producers and dairy farms in 2025. In North Carolina alone, the virus has ...

Other countries have seen mass crane die-offs caused by bird flu, from Israel to Japan to Hungary, where an at least 10,000 and possibly 20,000 Eurasian cranes died in the winter of 2023.

Bird flu is spreading among Central Texas wild birds as migration brings more and more birds here for the winter.