The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

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

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

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

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

Health authorities monitoring situation ‘closely’ after rare case of H5N1 confirmed

The elevated egg prices is a result of the 2022 outbreak of bird flu

With rising cases of bird flu across North America, some states are recommending taking traditional bird feeders down