Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

With egg prices so high and Chicago and many suburbs allowing people to raise hens, some are thinking about backyard chickens ...

Bird flu wasn’t on Tim Hanson’s mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. “You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food,” he said. “It was finely ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

Letting bird flu run through poultry flocks is “not ... We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Secretary of Agriculture ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 130 cases of H5N1 avian influenza in domestic cats spread across 23 states, ...

The Cal Falcons are gone. Prices of eggs have cracked $9. Bird Flu is present here in the Bay Area.  From rising egg prices ...

The sandhill cranes are being killed by bird flu, or avian influenza ... those closest to Chicago. The Department of Natural Resources estimates that more than 2,700 sandhills have died across ...

Some of the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to support testing for the ongoing bird flu outbreak have been ... shuttering offices in Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle ...

Flu can also trigger sepsis, an extreme, body-wide immune reaction. Runaway inflammation driven by sepsis can lead to tissue damage and fatal organ failure. Bird flu, or avian influenza ...

while a harbor seal and Chilean flamingo were felled at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo in January. Last month in New York, at least three ducks at the Queens Zoo died because of bird flu ...