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Egg prices have been steadily rising for months, and omelettes could become even more expensive as poultry farms around the country deal with an outbreak of bird flu.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller confirmed that the Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. poultry facility in Farewel...

An avian flu infection spreading across cattle herds in Texas has jumped to humans and chickens. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told Fortune that…

In the United States alone, more than 83 million head of poultry and commercial gamebirds have been affected by avian flu since 2022.

Bird flu cases in dairy cattle and the second human case in two years in the U.S. renewed concerns about the virus, which has been infecting poultry flocks and other species globally since 2022.

In March, Minnesota announced that bird flu had killed at least one young goat at a farm where poultry had been infected in February. It was the first known infection of U.S. livestock by the virus.

A person in Texas has been diagnosed with a highly virulent strain of bird flu, the first such case since the virus was detected in dairy cows last week.

The first case of bird flu in cattle leading to a human infection in Texas.

A person has caught bird flu from infected dairy cows in the US – the first time a human has caught the virus from another mammal.

Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said Monday. Officia...