Georgia Department of Agriculture has lifted its suspension on various poultry sales. It was imposed after three cases of ...

The country’s poor public health response to the outbreak is rooted in the inability to bring in dairy farmers as partners.

More than 4,500 tests representing nearly 50,000 chickens show no additional detections of HPAI bird flu Elbert County area.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture lifted its suspension on poultry sales after 24 days, following successful testing and surveillance that detected no additional avian flu cases. The ...

Sales and markets with live poultry can resume in Georgia after state officials lifted restrictions that had been in place since a pair of bird flu detections last month.

On Monday, the Georgia Agriculture Commissioner announced that all poultry activities involving live birds may resume.

Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, is taking a toll on migrating sandhill cranes and other waterfowl as the deadly ...

With emergencies declared for bird flu in Mercer and Darke counties, 2 NEWS is digging deeper into how the virus spreads.

There are two types of H5N1: Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Georgia's cases were the latter. It causes severe disease and high mortality in infected poultry.

Two cases of avian influenza (HPAI) were discovered last month in commercial poultry flocks in Elbert County. That outbreak prompted the state agency to suspend poultry activities across Georgia ...