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If you’re a backyard chicken owner (and even if you’re not), you’ve likely heard about Avian Influenza (AI). Commonly referred to as bird flu, it’s a highly contagious viral disease ...
Health experts advise fully cooking your eggs and poultry to an internal temperature of 165°F to kill bacteria and viruses, including this strain of avian influenza. Thoroughly cooking your ...
The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, as an outbreak of a newer variant ravages poultry flocks, contributing to the ...
But now, there's a new twist: A different strain has been detected in U.S. poultry. So far, bird flu outbreaks in the U.S. have been from a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI ...
“Symptoms of H5N1 avian influenza in the current US outbreak related to infected poultry and dairy cattle have generally been consistent with ordinary influenza symptoms,” says Amesh A. Adalja ...
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 ...
That’s because in the time that it takes to detect an avian flu virus in a flock of egg-laying chickens, 99.99% of eggs would not have reached store shelves yet, since they would still be in the ...
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has led to the destruction of 786,600 broiler chickens at a Tulare County ranch, marking the second poultry outbreak in about a month in the ...