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Bird flu, which is lethal for poultry and reduces milk output in dairy cows, has eliminated more than 100 million chickens and turkeys since 2022 in the biggest U.S. outbreak ever.
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 ...
With egg prices soaring, the Trump administration is planning a new strategy for fighting bird flu that stresses vaccinations and tighter biosecurity instead of killing off millions of chickens ...
According to the USDA’s bird flu dashboard, the number of commercial poultry farms with bird flu dropped from more than 90 in May 2022 to fewer than five in May 2023. Less spread on farms means ...
While other countries already vaccinate chickens against bird flu, the US approach has long been focused on eradicating the virus, mainly through culling flocks of birds when a case is identified ...
Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch — one of the largest egg producers in the nation — was first hit by the epidemic in April. Farmers slaughtered the small few infected by the virus as part of the ...
The U.S. will pay for flu shots for farmworkers this year, a strategy to prevent bird flu from changing into something more dangerous. Dairy and poultry farms are dealing with outbreaks of bird ...
Whole chicken and turkey prices spiked not just because of the bird flu outbreak, but also widespread inflation, according to the AP. Whole chickens went from an average of $1.62 per pound in ...