Wildlife professionals and advocates are grappling with an avian influenza outbreak that seems to be growing more virulent ...

Some bakeries and restaurants around the Chicago area have already been left shell-shocked by raising egg prices.

Hundreds of dead or sick red-breasted mergansers have been found along Lake Michigan, sparking bird flu concerns.

H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

One promising method is sampling wastewater. The technique continues to prove useful for monitoring COVID-19; since most ...

Officials urged residents of the Chicago area not to touch -- or let their pets touch -- dead or sick birds as a bird flu ...

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The nationwide spread of highly pathogenetic avian influenza, HPAI, also known as avian or bird flu has many in Illinois concerned about livestock, pets, wildlife food safety, and public health.

After multiple recent reports of ducks and geese washing up dead on Chicago's lakefront, Illinois wildlife officials tell ...

The infected birds "present with tremors and little ability to move," said a local conservation group tracking the outbreak.

Bird flu risk is low for people and there are no identified New York state human cases, but people should avoid direct ...