Bird flu is back in the headlines, and if you keep a few hens behind the garage or a full mixed flock on the edge of town, the risk is no longer an abstract problem for industrial barns. Highly ...

Across the country, dairy producers have dumped milk and infected chickens have been killed, including millions of egg-laying ...

A Seattle-area senior who was raising a backyard flock of mixed domestic birds died from the H5N5 strain of avian influenza last month after being hospitalized for complications related to the virus.

BOSTON (SHNS) – After detecting bird flu in a flock of backyard chickens in Dukes County, state agricultural officials are urging poultry owners to be vigilant as the virus circulates among wild birds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a summer lull in U.S. cases of avian influenza in both poultry and dairy cattle—and no human infections reported in the ...

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources said poultry is "highly susceptible" to the bird flu and "suffers extremely high mortality rates." Backyard and commercial poultry owners should ...

As birds fly south for the winter, they're carrying with them some unwelcome cargo: the H5N1 virus, or bird flu. In the past 30 days, the virus has struck 66 poultry flocks, leading to the deaths of ...

The circulating bird flu has been confirmed in the Bay State, as agricultural officials report that backyard chickens tested ...