More than 4 million chickens will be slaughtered to prevent the spread of bird flu after the virus was ... wrote in an email that the affected flock contains about 4.2 million chickens.

Nearly 7 million chickens, turkeys and ducks at commercial ... The current strain of bird flu (H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4), which was identified in 2021, is highly contagious and has persisted for ...

It was the 57th bird-flu ... about 2.05 million, about 10 percent of all egg-laying hens in Ibaraki Prefecture. In Aomori and Niigata prefectures, large farms with more than 1 million chickens ...

The latest report comes from the state of Nebraska where another 1,8 million chickens must be sacrificed ... Symptoms of bird flu in humans have previously ranged from eye redness and mild ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...

There are few details, but to bring egg prices down, the plan is aimed at trying to minimize the slaughter of chickens when the flu strikes… CDC finds evidence that bird flu spread silently to ...