Bird flu, also known as H5N1, continues to spread among U.S. livestock, driving up egg prices and worrying public health ...

File photo of ducks on a farm at Gironde in southwestern France. (Esperanza33/iStock/Getty Images) The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu ...

Carol BaldwinLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterWakaw RecorderIn late January, U.S. health officials announced that a new strain of avian flu, H5N9, was di ...

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The Department of Agriculture warned egg prices may increase more than 20% this year, after December saw a year-over-year increase of 36.8%.

As of Jan. 24, there were eight bird flu outbreaks across California, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri and Indiana that had resulted in the loss of 8.3 million birds. That loss accounted for 3.6% of ...