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Federal officials have confirmed cases of avian influenza in Stoddard, Bates, Jasper and Lawrence counties.

Federal officials have confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in a commercial chicken flock in Stoddard County, Missouri. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic influenza (HPAI) in the commercial broiler chicken flock. Samples were delivered to the Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Missouri for testing after a sudden increase in mortality in the flock. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Des Moines, Iowa, confirmed the positive results. HPAI is known to be deadly f...

Missouri poultry producers -- commercial and backyard flocks -- are being told to review and tighten biosecurity protocols after the avian influenza virus was confirmed in birds east of the Mississippi River.

M Cecilia Morales, a new Transportation Security Administration officer who is also an emergency medical technician, leaped over conveyor belt rollers to save a 2-month-old boy who had stopped breathing at a checkpoint at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport.

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph have all been given clearance to cross state lines.