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Like with other diseases, properly cooking chicken to 165 degrees Fahrenheit will kill bird flu, but the industry and chicken buyers don't want it there at all.
Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A viral social media post claims that Trader Joe’s is selling chickens vaccinated with mRNA bird flu vaccines. The post, which has gained traction on platforms like Facebook ...
Anti-vaxers on Truth Social are protesting news that the USDA approved a conditional license for a chicken vaccine against bird flu. MAGA Rallies Against Vaccinated Chickens Skip to content ...
BUCKEYE, Ariz. — The largest egg producer in Arizona is bringing in new chickens for the first time since the farm was devastated by bird flu. To see them, though, is no small feat. Hickman's family ...
The agency defines the bird flu's impact on broiler chickens as "minimal," with 10.4 million birds affected from 2022 to 2024, a small fraction of the total birds processed for meat.
Amid high egg prices and bird flu cases soaring across the country, Saratoga County residents are tending to their own flocks. Backyard chicken owners Carly Muhlhahn and her husband Benjamin ...
This year alone, Hickman’s Family Farms lost 1.1 million chickens to bird flu. Until a vaccine is approved, Hickman believes bird flu will continue to control the egg market.
The news came weeks after owners MariKate and Marty Thomas lost their flock of 3,000 chickens to the avian flu in January. “First the bird flu, and then this. Like, what’s next?” ...
Glenn Hickman, president and CEO of Hickman's Family Farms, says 6 million of the company's chickens have died from bird flu over the last two weeks. By Alexis Cortez and Ben Bradley ...
About 123 chickens are being euthanized as a result of the positive case of the disease commonly known as bird flu, which is highly contagious among domestic poultry species, officials with the ...
A backyard flock of chickens in Dare County has tested positive for bird flu, prompting the euthanasia of the birds to prevent further spread. Posted 3/3/2025, 5:25:36 PM Updated 3/3/2025, 6:08:47 PM ...