According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, five California counties — Fresno, Marin, Merced, San Joaquin and Sonoma — have active avian flu infections.

A year after the bird flu led to record egg prices and widespread shortages, the disease known as highly pathogenic avian influenza is wreaking havoc in California, which escaped the earlier wave ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --Three dairies in central California have tested positive for avian flu, the first time the virus has been discovered in the state after spreading across the United States since March.

Farms across California have had to euthanize several million chickens and ducks in recent weeks, as a wave of avian influenza threatens to upend national poultry and egg supplies. While cases of ...

SACRAMENTO, California — Health officials across the U.S. are working to prevent a potentially dangerous combination virus as avian flu rips through one of the nation's largest milk-producing ...

The lawsuit said California's animal cruelty laws created "unnecessary red tape" in egg production, bringing up prices in the ...

Three California condors have died from avian flu in northern Arizona and authorities are trying to determine what killed five others in the flock, the National Park Service said.

Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu. Following government rules, Weber's company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire ...

At least 34 herds in California have been infected recently with H5N1 bird flu. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Originally Published: September 26, 2024 at 8:37 AM PDT ...

Federal scientists are closely studying H5N1 genetic sequences from California dairy workers in search of any dangerous mutations that may make the virus, called avian flu or bird flu, more ...