Over 200 birds at the Baker’s Lake Forest preserve in Illinois are suspected to have died from an outbreak of H5 avian flu. The flu outbreak was confirmed in laboratory tests conducted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Further tests were conducted by the federal government, with wildlife biologists at the Forest Preserves of Cook…

Federal health officials are closely monitoring an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird influenza that has devastated poultry farms on the East Coast and in the Midwest in recent days. While millions of birds have been culled due to avian influenza across the United States, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said…

Canada’s food safety watchdog says the discovery of avian influenza in a commercial poultry flock in Nova Scotia has resulted in international trade restrictions on some Canadian poultry products. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the outbreak of high pathogenic H5N1 was reported last week to the World Organization for Animal Health. The agency says…