A highly infectious strain of avian influenza, or "bird flu," has led to a steep incline in egg prices around the country.

An egg association as warned of “long-term consequences” for the UK following the latest detection of bird flu at a farm in ...

Farmers within 3km of a commercial poultry farm near Easingwold have been told to follow strict biosecurity rules in an attempt to avert the spread of bird flu following an outbreak.

A CHILD tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after experiencing conjunctivitis, health officials have confirmed. The patient, ...

France has reinforced checks for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and issued alerts to veterinarians after an outbreak of the ...

also called avian influenza, pandemic. While no new human cases of H5N1 have been detected in the UK as part of the current wave of outbreaks, Britain has seen people infected before.

Germany announced its first outbreak of FMD in nearly 40 years last week in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of ...

A child in San Francisco has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after experiencing conjunctivitis and fever, health officials ...

Elsewhere in Europe, avian influenza is confirmed in poultry flocks in Poland, England, Portugal, Hungary and Germany.

For several decades, bird flu outbreaks were largely limited to poultry ... says the virus is highly unlikely to affect cattle in Britain and the risk to the public is low. Bird flu infections ...

Great Britain is no longer free from HPAI. The last case before the current season was detected in February 2024. Between 2021 and 2023, the UK experienced its largest ever bird flu outbreak due ...