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DUBLIN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November. 10, following the first outbreak of highly ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed another outbreak of bird flu in a commercial poultry facility in Ottawa County. The outbreak, ...

California’s first bird flu outbreaks of the 2025-26 winter season have hit close to home. The owner of Reichardt Duck Farm, which sits in the rolling hills between Petaluma and the Two Rock area, ...

Health officials in Washington state said Friday they have confirmed the first U.S. human case of bird flu since February, with a strain that has previously been reported in animals but never before ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development has confirmed three more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Ottawa County. All three of the new ...

Health officials say the situation is “serious” after a domestic worker was hospitalized in November. H7N9, an influenza virus that normally infects birds such as chickens and wild geese, first jumped ...