State agencies are issuing avian influenza (HPAI) precautions after detection of the virus in locations they manage. Although the chance of encountering a diseased animal—even less of catching or transmitting it—the safety steps are simple and procedures most readers likely already follow.

Customers in Louisiana and nationwide are dealing with egg prices going up and sparsely populated aisles at the grocery store following the spread of the bird flu in the U.S.

Egg prices expected to stay high because of limited supplies as the virus continues to infect commercial flocks nationwide.

Two different lineages are currently circulating, one carried by wild birds, the other infecting dairy farms in the US. The challenge is to find out how far the virus is evolving to adapt to humans, following the death of an American patient.

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

Massachusetts, United States - A man died Monday in Louisiana after contracting the bird flu virus after being exposed to birds. By December the CDC had identified at least 65 human infections of avian flu in the United States,

Dairy cattle in New Hampshire will soon be tested for avian flu in an effort to keep people who work with livestock safe.

With the advent of cases of avian flu in southern New England, and the rise in egg prices due to limited supply as a result, concerns are rising about the threat and impact of the fowl-borne illness.

Highly pathogenic' avian influenza can pose a dire risk to wild birds, as the North Fort Myers eagle nest shows, but most humans needn't worry about catching it.

A Michigan animal sanctuary owner alleged state authorities were inhumane when they culled her birds. She changed the state's H5N1 depopulation code.

The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.

The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, Reuters reported, citing the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) on Monday.