Smithfield Foods' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more ...

Corwin was forced to lay off 48 workers but kept 20 to help with the clean up. He said the company was successful in ...

US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying ...

Generally, yes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture also reports that the chances of eggs or poultry infected by the bird flu ...

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a virus that primarily impacts poultry flocks. It is usually passed onto them by ...

The Department of Agriculture warned egg prices may increase more than 20% this year, after December saw a year-over-year ...

What is H5N9 and how is it different from H5N1? Scientists classify bird flu viruses by which kind of two key proteins are ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were ...

Turkeys in a commercial Sampson County flock have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, the N.C. Department ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...