avian flu

Bird flu’s toll on flocks across the country has meant eggs are expensive and in short supply.

More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County, Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu. Officials are now deliberating on how to transport, bury, compost or incinerate the birds.

Washington state agricultural officials say additional cases of bird flu have now been confirmed with the most recent in Whatcom and Okanogan counties. The state Department of Agriculture said Friday that the cases were confirmed Thursday in non-commercial backyard flocks.

The avian flu that is spreading quickly across the U.S. has been detected in Oregon for the first time since 2015, in a backyard flock of birds in a rural area. State health officials say the presence of the highly contagious virus was confirmed Friday by federal officials after state officials conducted preliminary testing.

Washington state agriculture officials are preparing for the scenario that highly-contagious bird flu will be in the Northwest — maybe for years.Since…

Washington state agriculture officials have just finished up the grim task of euthanizing nearly 5,000 birds in Okanogan County.Now veterinarians will…

Another new case of bird flu has popped up in northern Washington state. This one is a hobby and 4-H program flock in Oroville, Washington, not far from…

Washington state has set a six-mile quarantine circle around a new major bird flu site in near Riverside in north-central Washington.About 5,000 birds —…

Government agriculture officials will kill 5,000 pheasants and turkeys due to a bird flu outbreak at a hunting operation Washington's Okanogan…

Three new hot spots of bird flu have been found in wild ducks and domestic birds in Idaho.A second Oregon case was confirmed last week in a wild duck near…