Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chickens stand in cages at a farm in Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press) When the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus made its ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland have received nearly $2 million in federal funding to develop and test a vaccine designed to protect chickens from avian influenza H5N1.

Highly contagious H5N1 avian flu has been confirmed in a Mississippi chicken flock. Do you know the symptoms of bird flu? The Mississippi Board of Animal Health issued a news release on Monday, Dec.

A team led by UC Davis poultry scientist Huaijun Zhou has created the first comprehensive map of gene regulation in breeds of chickens. The map could be a resource for finding resistance to H5N1 ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Yunlin County culled more than 24,000 chickens Saturday after two chicken farms in Shuilin Township ...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has identified two new cases of bird flu - this time in ...

Bird flu (H5N1) confirmed in a Jefferson County poultry flock. Risk to the public is low; officials urge biosecurity and avoiding sick or dead birds.

H5N1 headlines are unsettling for anyone who collects eggs from a coop instead of a carton, but they are also a practical reminder that your backyard is part of a much larger disease-control picture.

A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu Health officials say she was likely infected via handling sick birds in a backyard flock The woman is “an older adult” with “other health ...