Egg prices fell $1.20 in March, according to the USDA, but the market remains unpredictable. With no cure for avian flu, the government orders entire flocks to be put down to contain outbreaks. Over ...

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for ...

A Washington state-based company has announced it has issued a voluntary recall for a brand of cat food due to potential bird ...

The USDA's plan to attack bird flu and lower egg prices includes $1 billion in funding, more imports and encouraging "backyard chickens." ...

From worries about food safety to egg prices, Americans have questions about the bird flu. This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5N1 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, ...

Ali Khan has been worried about bird flu ever since the H5N1 strain first appeared in China in the mid-1990s, when he was a disease detective at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The uptick in cases could indicate a spread of the disease or simply greater awareness of the virus, officials said.