The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $502 million to ensure its rapid response to any future bird flu cases as the country’s worst-ever outbreak of the virus levels off, the agency said Friday. Bird flu has killed 58.7 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds across 47 states since January 2022, a record number in…

By Christopher Vondracek From Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Minneapolis—Only once did the chickens fly—or fence-hop—into Nancy Engberg’s neighbor’s yard in north Minneapolis. And no, it wasn’t just to cross the road to get to the other side. “I watched them go over,” Engberg said, describing a mildly alarming incident early in her tenure tending to an…

A Chinese woman has died from H3N8 bird flu—the world’s first case of human death from a type of bird flu that to date has been exceedingly rare in humans. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the development in a statement on April 11. On March 27, the National Health Commission of China’s communist regime…

The Eurasian strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) has been detected in two mountain lions in California in recent months, wildlife health experts confirmed this week. In a March 28 news release, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) said that while additional disease testing is currently being conducted to rule out the possibility of…

Some of the largest vaccine companies in the developed world are reportedly preparing avian flu H5N1 shots for humans in case the virus were to mutate and become easily transmissible from person to person. Vaccine makers GSK, Moderna, and CSL Seqirus told Reuters that they have begun developing or are about to test new human…

The Toronto Zoo has shut down some of its bird enclosures after an avian flu case was detected at a southern Ontario poultry farm. The zoo says the precautionary measures introduced Thursday are required in light of the case of avian influenza detected at a commercial poultry farm within 200 kilometres. A highly pathogenic type…

Commentary As the nation suffers through yet another High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak, questioning the orthodox narrative is more important than ever. At a time when people are screaming about overpopulation and the world’s inability to feed itself, surely we humans need to figure out how to reduce these kinds of losses. Numbers change…

Restaurant chain operators and retailers in Japan are struggling to source eggs, according to reports, as the country faces its worst avian influenza outbreak. Teikoku Databank said that at least 18 listed restaurant chain operators in Japan, including McDonald’s Holdings Co., have temporarily stopped selling egg-related menu items as of March 5, Bloomberg reported. Meanwhile,…

This week, Argentina and Uruguay declared national health emergencies following outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that is destroying poultry flocks and wild birds. Ten South American countries are seeing an outbreak of the H5N1 “Bird flu” virus. Is this something new? There have been many “outbreaks” of H5N1 and other strains…

The Biden administration is considering the mass vaccination of the poultry population in response to an ongoing outbreak of avian flu that has killed off millions of birds and has helped spike egg and poultry costs. There are some existing vaccines for farm birds, but U.S. Agriculture Department spokesman Mike Stepien told The New York…