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…

A large poultry farm in Minnesota, which supplied some of the biggest supermarkets in America with 3 million eggs per day, burned to the ground. However, this is not the only fire to have taken place over the past year or so. In fact, during that time, there have been dozens of food processing facilities…

New York State has banned the sale of poultry at auctions and swap meets in an effort to contain the spread of avian flu that has resulted in the loss of 10,000 birds so far. On April 15, the state’s department of agriculture and markets issued an order to ban all fowl auctions and “other…