South Africa has reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Astral Foods Ltd., one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers by revenue, will start vaccinating chickens against bird ...

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

Brazil hopes to soon reverse those bans after declaring itself free of the bird flu virus on commercial flocks following a 28 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time ...

Without protocol reforms, mass vaccinations of the national flock will be unlikely. Astral Foods became the first broiler ...

Brazil's vast and diverse geography, with the Amazon to the north, mountain ranges along the Atlantic coast and the Andes to ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The Department of Agriculture is considering a plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time, including ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Another batch of 900 arrived last week and some 900 more will soon make their way to the roughly 140-acre (55-hectare) farm ...