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

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 ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

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.

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

The report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in dairy herds is spreading undetected in cows, and the spillover into ...

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

During national egg shortage and price increases, area chicken owners provide advice on raising chickens in your own backyard ...

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.