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Bird flu

Bird flu, or avian flu, is an infectious type of influenza that spreads among birds. In rare cases, it can affect humans, being passed through touching infected birds, bedding, and preparing or eating sick poultry.

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People are renting their chickens because eggs are getting too expensive

People are renting chickens because eggs are getting too expensive

Channel: US US March 4, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
Eggs are for sale at a grocery store in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, on Sunday, January 19, 2025, as bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Thieves flee with 100,000 eggs worth £32,000 raising fears houses could be pelted

Channel: US US February 6, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
A person in a hazmat suit injecting a chicken and image inset of the map of UK showing the new avian flu prevention zone.

Map shows where bird flu prevention zone is declared in UK after cases rise

Channel: UK UK February 5, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
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Mystery over decapitated birds found in remote Scottish town

Channel: UK UK January 7, 2025 By Danny Rigg
FILE PHOTO: Test tube is seen labelled "Bird Flu" in front of the U.S. flag in this illustration taken, June 10, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo REFILE - CORRECTING INFORMATION FROM "FEST" TO "TEST".

First human bird flu death confirmed in US

Channel: US US January 7, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
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Pet food recalled for bird flu contamination after house cat eats it and dies

Channel: US US December 26, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
(FILES) A chicken is pictured on a farm where thousands of poultry are produced in Tepatitlan, Jalisco State, Mexico, on June 6, 2024. Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing signs of mutating as it spreads among cows and infects people in the United States. There is no guarantee that bird flu will ever begin transmitting between humans, and US health authorities have emphasised that the risk to the general public remains low. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz / AFP) (Photo by ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images)

First severe bird flu case confirmed in US

Channel: US US December 18, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
NAFFERTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 18: Officials from the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) dispose of culled ducks at a farm near Nafferton, East Yorkshire where a strain of bird flu has been confirmed on November 18, 2014 in East Yorkshire, England. Health officials will cull 6000 ducks and have imposed a six mile exclusion zone to contain the spread, although any risk to public health is said to be very low. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Bird flu prevention zones declared in UK after first case of 'highly infectious' strain

Channel: UK UK December 14, 2024 By Brooke Davies
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Could farms be the breeding ground for another pandemic?

Channel: US US August 22, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
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What do we know about deadly H5N2 bird flu strain never seen before in humans?

Channel: World World June 7, 2024 By Tom Sanders

Person dies from bird flu strain never before seen in humans

Channel: World World June 6, 2024 By Josh Milton
Map shows where bird flu is spreading in US amid new warning CDC METRO GRAPHICS Credit metro.co.uk

Map shows where bird flu is spreading in US amid new warning

Channel: US US April 6, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
Free-Range Turkeys and Hens, Gascony, France

Bird flu patient marks concerning first in virus spread

Channel: Tech Tech April 2, 2024 By Katherine Fidler
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Bird flu found in cows for the first time anywhere in the world

Channel: Tech Tech March 27, 2024 By Hiyah Zaidi
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The shocking numbers behind 'next' pandemic sweeping the globe

Channel: Tech Tech March 14, 2024 By Katherine Fidler
A group of King Penguins with yellow necks walking across brown sand on the beach of South Georgia island, with its rocky, snow-capped mountains in the background

Island where 1,000,000 penguins live hit by killer disease

Channel: World World March 13, 2024 By Danny Rigg

Boy, 9, dies and brother, 16, infected with lethal bird flu strain found in UK

Channel: World World February 13, 2024 By Alan Shields
Polar Bear on ice

Bird flu kills first polar bear as disease continues to spread

Channel: Tech Tech January 4, 2024 By Katherine Fidler

Woman, 33, dies three weeks after catching rare strain of bird flu

Channel: News News December 27, 2023 By Ben Ashton

Two test positive for bird flu in England

Channel: UK UK July 14, 2023 By Brooke Davies