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How to Protect Pets and Backyard Chickens from Bird Flu
As bird flu outbreaks continue to affect animals, experts answer questions about keeping pets and their owners healthy
What is bird flu? Here's everything you need to know about the virus affecting chickens and dairy cattle
The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry workers.
Vaccinating chickens could help contain bird flu — and egg prices. Here’s why it’s rare
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for soaring egg prices.
Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices but US remains hesitant
The move has been delayed in part because of concerns it could jeopardize chicken exports worth billions of dollars a year.
Vaccinating chickens could help egg prices but U.S. remains hesitant
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.
Vaccinating chickens could help cut soaring egg prices, experts say
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans to spend $100 million to study bird flu vaccines to fight the disease in concert with meat chicken, egg and turkey groups.
Can the US vaccinate chickens to prevent bird flu?
Chicken meat producers remain the most resistant to vaccines because of concerns they could harm meat exports, which totaled nearly $4.7 billion last year.
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The Latest on Bird Flu Research, Infected Cats, and More
No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in ...
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Farmworkers say they’re struggling to get bird flu testing, PPE
While the CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is still low, cases have been picking up speed in the past year ...
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Silent Spread: Local experts share advice on protecting you, your family, and your pets from the bird flu
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans flocked to a new trend: raising chickens. An estimated 12 million people now own backyard birds.
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Businesses are shelling out for eggs in the face of shortage, price hikes
The most recent outbreak of bird flu has driven up the cost of eggs, forcing business owners to raise prices or limit their ...
USA Today11d
Are we ready for a bird flu pandemic? | The Excerpt
On a special episode (first released on February 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: As bird flu, also known as H5N1, continues to spread across the country, experts are concerned about the ...
MLive - GrandRapids/Muskegon/Kalamazoo on MSN6d
After 20 U.P. dairy workers got sick, state criticized for slow response
The milk tested negative for H5N1, but advocates say a slow response highlights gaps in the state's bird flu response.
First cases of bird flu in humans confirmed in California
California health officials confirm human cases of bird flu linked to Central Valley dairy farms, with 37 workers and one ...