Highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, or “bird flu,” cases are popping up, so here are some expert facts about the viral disease.

On a September afternoon, Georgie Cartanza walked inside one of her chicken houses to check on tens of thousands of chicks. The chicks, just three days old, were smaller and lighter than a tennis ball ...

Salmonellosis in your flocks is a threat to you and your customers. Salmonellosis is a disease of both humans and animals caused by a bacteria called salmonella. It is also commonly referred to as ...

For a farmer to get full benefits of his investments, labour and time on his chicken farm, he must have a healthy flock. With that in mind, knowledge of important diseases, their transmission, ...

Disease. One of the scariest words in farming and food production. In a state that’s king of the poultry industry, expert planning, precautions and emergency response are chief priorities to keep ...

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Researchers say a serious new form of a viral poultry disease has been found in Washington state. Infectious bursal disease virus, known as IBDV for short, is not known to infect ...

Additional outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry have been confirmed by these countries over the past two weeks.

Attenuated live vaccines that protect poultry against Newcastle Disease may be altering the genetic makeup of the wild virus strains, which could make future outbreaks unpredictable and difficult to ...

Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University associate research scientist Melha Mellata, a member of professor Roy Curtiss' team, is leading a USDA funded project to develop a vaccine against a ...

USDA's Agricultural Research Service and US Biologic announced recently that their researchers had developed an oral solution to fight the parasitic disease poultry coccidiosis. Poultry coccidiosis, ...

As well as the poultry outbreaks in Namibia and Nigeria outlined above, a total of 26 outbreaks of HPAI have been confirmed in South Africa’s wild and domestic birds since October. This is according ...

For decades, I’ve led Rose Acre Farms Inc., headquartered in Seymour, Indiana. With about 25 million laying hens – over ...