The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

A California duck farm has culled thousands of birds as the virus seems to be trading genetics with other viruses

Millions of birds have been killed in attempts to halt the spread of H5N1 bird flu across the U.S.

Smithfield Foods' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more attractive ever since COVID tore through the industry during the pandemic will help it weather the impact of President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations

Learn about the impact of the recent bird flu outbreak on the poultry industry, causing egg prices to surge and supply shortages.

It looks like grocery shoppers hoping for soaring egg prices to turn around are likely to be waiting a while

Bird flu infections around the U.S. have forced mass cullings and resulted in the deaths of zoo animals and pets

Second human case of H5N1 bird flu caught on farm in West Midlands but risk to public remains very low, says UKHSA

While health officials have insisted that the risk to the public remains low amid continued spread, the outbreak has passed some troubling milestones

Discovery of H5N9 came alongside detection of the more common H5N1 on the farm, leading to 119,000 birds’ deaths

The case is only one of seven seen in the UK since 2021 and the risk to the wider public is ‘low’, officials said.

Human-to-human transmission of bird flu has never been documented in Europe