An ongoing bird flu epidemic has forced farmers to kill millions of egg-laying hens, leading to a serious shortage.

It urged all poultry producers to review their biosecurity practices. Since the first of the year, surveillance has identified the Eurasian H5N1 strain in waterfowl in several East Coast states.

The cases raise concerns that the more recent Eurasian 2.3.4.4b H5N1 clade, which has sickened birds, mammals, and a few people in multiple world regions, may be expanding. At a World Health ...

The strain is known as the “Eurasian H5N1 strain.” The strain is unusually deadly for wild birds when compared with other strains of its kind, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N9 has been identified in U.S. poultry for the first time, after outbreak at a commercial ...

The current strain, called Eurasian H5N1, has proved to be deadly for wild birds, killing bald eagles, great horned owls, Canadian geese, snow geese and other wild birds. The virus has been ...

No evidence was found of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, which caused mortality in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa. There was no evidence that this strain occurred in North American wild birds.

four with Eurasian H5 and two with Eurasian H5N1, according to the USDA. Highly pathogenic strains can cause sudden death in poultry before they develop symptoms, or chickens may show symptoms ...

As the Eurasian strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 continues to impact wild and domestic birds across the state, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) wildlife disease ...