The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

The French delicacy foie gras is in short supply – and prices per kilo are skyrocketing – as the festive season approaches.

Samatan (France) (AFP) - Foie gras pate, the consummate delicacy of French holiday tables, might be harder to find this year and certainly pricier due to a bird flu outbreak that ravaged farms across the west and south last winter.

Small farmers say reports of ‘shortage’ are driving customers to grab mass-produced poultry from supermarket freezer cabinets

The U.S. is enduring its worst poultry health disaster, with some 52.7 million birds dead. Unlike another recent outbreaks, this one has lasted through the summer — and it's still going strong.

Lima (AFP) - Peruvian authorities have culled at least 37,000 birds on a chicken farm due to bird flu, officials said Thursday.

Eggs shortage could drag out until Christmas 2023

The government has ordered birds be kept indoors to protect them from the disease

Prior to this year, the largest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history occurred in 2015, in what the USDA called “arguably the most significant animal health event in U.S. history.”

Poultry lockdowns have hit thick and fast with a worrying rise in avian flu cases over the past year, which is affecting chickens, eggs and Christmas turkeys