Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chickens stand in cages at a farm in Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press) When the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus made its ...

Chickens will be euthanized at an undisclosed Franklin County commercial poultry operation after the first detection this year of avian influenza was confirmed Oct. 15. It follows an outbreak in ...

When the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus made its first appearance at a U.S. poultry farm in February 2022, roughly 29,000 turkeys at an Indiana facility were sacrificed in an attempt to avert a larger ...

With the H5N1 bird flu virus likely here to stay, some poultry producers, disease experts and government officials are questioning the practice of widespread culling in response to outbreaks.