Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

A year into the outbreak of avian flu, there is a continuing threat from the virus to poultry flocks and dairy herds, and to a lesser degree humans. Since ...

Two candidates will face off for Springfield City Council’s General Zone A seat. Heather Hardinger currently serves Zone A.

Avian flu has meanwhile killed 90% of the pregnant ... the far deadlier D1.1 variant of the virus was discovered in a herd of cattle in Nevada. Should such a lethal variant mutate into a ...

The 92-page report found that Nevada ranked in the lowest tier of performance in state preparedness for a public health ...

March 25 (UPI) --Shipments of ready-to-hatch eggs have been seized three times this month at a port of entry in the Midwest, as agriculture officials work to slow the spread of avian influenza ...

A series of reported outbreaks at some of the largest egg producers in the U.S. have caused a shortage in egg supplies, as infected flocks are typically culled to reduce the risk of transmission. Bird ...

Those eggs "are highly regulated because they can carry Newcastle disease and/or Avian Influenza (HPAI)," according ... from Turkey to New York and Nevada. A March 16 shipment also from Turkey ...

Nevada, California and Idaho, but the number of cases is low overall. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins hosted an update ...