In today’s Health Alert, a new strain of bird flu - H5N9 - has been detected in the U.S. The first confirmed case was found ...

Avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, is caused by influenza viruses that spread between birds. According to the ...

Local chicken farmers are bumping up precautions after officials recently announced that bird flu has likely entered Massachusetts. State officials said last week they suspect the latest highly ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

Poultry farmers have been on high alert watching the avian influenza devastate the country. A commercial poultry farm in Lehigh County is quarantined after the state’s first ...

Today’s consumer alert looks at the price of eggs, and what’s being done about it. Egg prices are spiking again, and bird flu is to blame. More bird flu means fewer chickens which means fewer ...

AFTER THE BIRD FLU WAS DETECTED THERE LAST MONTH ... AND LOCAL AG LEADERS ON HIGH ALERT.. (JUAN 1:54 SO A LOT OF COMMUNICATION OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS WITH A LOT OF WITH ALL OF OUR LIVESTOCK ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain.

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ... Flu Virus Remains Infectious in Refrigerated ...

CDC is urging pharmacists and other health care workers to delay large-scale flu vaccination programs, which usually start in October, until November and to plan for a possible influenza vaccine ...