Avian influenza spreads in birds, cows and other animals, and it can sometimes spread to people. In the United States, there ...

Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for National Institutes of Health grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local ...

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk of an outbreak of the bird flu in humans is low, although Illinois’ health department is preparing for the possibility. On Friday, the ...

The Department of Natural Resources confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, was found in a merganser ...

Anxieties are high as experts warn the avian flu outbreak could worsen in the spring, but egg prices are spurring more ...

The US is in the throes of an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with Covid-19 at some points of the pandemic.

Record high egg prices prompted Nevada lawmakers to unanimously back suspending their cage-free egg law, but the six other ...

Egg prices have reached a record high in the U.S. as an ongoing bird flu outbreak that began in 2022 is making eggs terribly ...

Emily Landon, M.D., an infectious diseases expert at the University of Chicago Medicine, said she doesn’t foresee the bird flu outbreak becoming a global health emergency. That’s because ...

Some grocers are taking steps to stretch their existing egg supplies, the USDA found. It comes as the bird flu has caused egg ...