The fourth detection was in Sac County in northwestern Iowa on Feb. 19, where 29,665 turkeys were destroyed and the second in ...

The bird flu outbreak is largely due to the close quarters and poor conditions of farmed animals in factory farming ...

While the company has conditional approval, the USDA will still have to approve its larger use before farmers can give it to their flocks, according to Science Magazine. The report added that if bird ...

If it's cheap food we want, and security from disease, we should go back to the old model — once again having many small ...

In Portage County, farmers are concerned about bird flu, but with no local cases, they worry more about rising costs and ...

Efforts to address bird flu mostly focus on tightening up farm facilities, killing infected animals and frantically tracking a rapidly branching tree of viral strains. Yet most media coverage fails to ...

Miller said before you get started, you should make sure it’s legal to have chickens in your backyard, and the Centers for Disease Control warns that there are health risks, such as the ...

vaccinating chickens against bird flu could become the norm. Cases of H5N1 in humans have been rare. However, the first death from the disease was reported last month. The death occurred in ...