The disease is spread to chicken by direct contact with droppings or discharges from infected birds. It affects all poultry including chicken, ducks, turkeys, pigeons but chicken are the most ...

HPAI, or bird flu, is “a highly contagious airborne respiratory virus that spreads easily among birds through nasal and eye ...

This is one of the most common diseases being encountered ... recover usually act as carriers and easily spread the disease to uninfected chicken. “All-in/all-out” system is the ideal ...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced it had detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, sometimes called ...

Multiple state agencies, as well as the Little Rock Zoo, are continuing to monitor the spread of the avian flu in Arkansas.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ... from multiple retail stores and directly from a hatchery. A common poultry supplier has not been identified across all outbreaks.

The University of Delaware in consultation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to postpone the Emergency Poultry Disease Response and the Poultry Disease Outbreak Management and ...

But these are common ... to infected poultry and dairy cattle have generally been consistent with ordinary influenza symptoms,” says Amesh A. Adalja, MD, an infectious disease expert and senior ...

A quarter of a million birds in Northern Ireland have been infected with a poultry disease, the Department of Agriculture (Daera) has said. ILT - or infectious laryngotracheitis - has broken out ...

As H5 bird flu impacts bird populations, and some who work with poultry, local health officials recommend residents who keep ...

Appropriate swabs or blood samples will be taken with minimal stress to birds. These will be tested for common poultry diseases and a full lab report will be provided.