The person was exposed to sick and dead birds in a backyard flock and to ... Another 66 people in the U.S. — none in Illinois — were infected with bird flu in 2024. Most were exposed to ...

Does avian influenza affect wild birds? Find out if you need to take down bird feeders. Plus learn the risk to backyard ...

Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

Joy O’Keefe, an associate professor and wildlife extension specialist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said the risk of bird flu for backyard chickens depends on a few factors.

HPAI was detected in a backyard flock in Hardin County ... Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. The H5N1 bird flu has impacted more than 168 million birds since February 2022 ...

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized ... underlying medical conditions who had contact with a backyard flock and wild birds. Globally, over the past ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...