Bird Flu

The study revealed that the virus is mutating in dogs.

The third person ever recorded to have contracted H3N8 bird flu has died in China, with all three infected people having been exposed to live poultry.

In the third ever case of a human infection by H3N8 bird flu—a different virus to the H5N1 bird flu currently in the U.S.—a woman in China has died.

Politicians as well as angry members of the public are asking for more scrutiny on companies enjoying greater revenues from rising costs.

Egg prices hit a record high in December at an average of more than $4 per dozen.

In December, the average cost for a dozen large Grade A eggs in U.S. cities hit $4.25, up $1.79 from a year earlier.

Californians pay among the highest prices in the U.S. for a dozen eggs, in part because of the state's Proposition 12, requiring that animals are cage-free.

A new conspiracy theory suggests that egg shortages are not due to highly contagious bird flu, but because egg yolk is a secret cure for COVID-19.

Lack of supply and price increases are due to a bird-flu outbreak and rising costs of feed, labor and energy, post-COVID-19 pandemic, an expert told Newsweek.

Prices are expected to remain high as the costs of fuel, transportation, feed and packaging have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The incendiary Fox News host claimed there are other unspecified forces at work behind the current egg shortage than the bird flu outbreak.

In a world first, the three grizzly bears were found to have a form of highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu.

"I feel like a drug dealer," one farmer said of the demand she is experiencing for affordable eggs, amid price rises fuelled by a record outbreak of avian flu.

"The price of a 16-pound whole frozen turkey has increased by over 40 percent since last year," Wallethub analyst Jill Gonzalez told Newsweek.

Colorado health authorities reported the first U.S. case of a type of bird flu called HPAI H5 as the country battles a wider bird flu epidemic across farms.

The CDC announced that the one case does not change the human risk assessment for the general public, which is "low" at this time.

The five-year-old boy was confirmed as the first case of human transmission on April 26 after falling ill three weeks earlier.

Almost 23 million birds have been killed in the U.S. this year because of the outbreak, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Once the virus is detected in an animal, its entire flock is culled in order to prevent the disease from spreading.

The highly infectious avian flu has been found in backyard and commercial poultry flocks, including broiler chickens and turkeys in 17 states.

French officials said Tuesday that millions of birds across the country have been infected and had to be killed during the last several months.

The state is seeing its first avian flu outbreak since 2015. The disease was first detected in turkeys at two animal feeding facilities.

Avian flu has been detected in commercial and backyard flocks in 12 states, including New York, Michigan, Illinois and Kansas.

Avian flu has been detected in backyard flocks in Michigan, Maine, Virginia, and New York, with keepers who interact with birds at greatest risk of infection.

Avian influenza has been detected in poultry flocks as well as wild birds since January. Experts tell Newsweek what the risk is to humans.

The highly infectious avian influenza has now been reported in commercial and backyard birds in six states, and in wild birds in 10 states.

The detection of bird flu in a backyard flock of birds in New York is the latest in an ongoing spate of cases also involving turkeys and broiler chickens.

The detection of the virus in a flock of broiler chickens follows the destruction of 29,000 turkeys in Indiana and widens the current U.S. avian flu outbreak.

Two new outbreaks were reported just days after the U.S. ordered nearly 30,000 turkeys to be euthanized for testing positive for the disease.

Workers were removing bird carcasses as fast as they could, as there are concerns they would potentially infect other wildlife, said Yaron Michaeli.