KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is warning residents to keep an eye out as numerous reports of sick and dead waterfowl are reported across the state. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or ‘bird flu ...

Questions are answered by experts at the Oregon Health Authority, other state agencies or community partners. Questions and answers are republished by permission. Q: My husband and I have backyard chickens, and we harvest eggs for us and our neighbors.

It was a quiet summer for bird flu: Egg prices fell a bit, fewer sick poultry flocks were culled on farms, and officials took a breath. “It was lovely,” said Shauna Voss, the assistant director of the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. But it didn’t last.