bird flu

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The top turkey producing county in the country's top turkey state has recorded its 40th case of bird flu.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two poultry operations in Renville County have been struck by bird flu, including one with over 400,000 chickens.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - Minnesota has now experienced over 100 outbreaks of a deadly bird flu since the first outbreak was detected in a commercial turkey flock back in March.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - After a lull that lasted about a week and a half, state officials announced Tuesday they had identified six new presumptive bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks at farms in southern Minnesota.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Egg prices surged to a record on Friday, a month after bird flu was first detected in the chicken flock in Iowa, the nation's leading egg producer.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hormel is reporting a record second-quarter profit of $180.2 million despite the impacts of bird flu that has killed more than 8 million birds in Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the nation's largest egg producers says it will destroy 2 million egg-laying hens in Minnesota due to a deadly bird flu virus.

St Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) -  The ongoing bird flu crisis in Minnesota has led to a decision to cancel all bird exhibitions at county fairs, the Minnesota State Fair, and other gatherings of birds.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa agriculture officials say bird flu will claim an additional 4 million Iowa egg-laying chickens on two more farms in a county already hit by the disease.

St. Paul, MN  (KROC-AM News) - For the first time in three weeks, state officials did not report any new bird flu outbreaks in Minnesota on Wednesday.

St. Paul, MN  (KROC-AM News) - A member of the Minnesota Legislature is under fire for his attempt at a joke involving the bird flu.

Faribault, MN  (KROC-AM News) - A turkey process plant in southern Minnesota has ordered hundreds of temporary layoffs because of the bird flu crisis.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - The bird flu has hit a huge chicken farm in south-central Minnesota.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It's been five months since the H5N2 bird flu virus was discovered in the U.S., and producers have lost more than 21 million birds in the Midwest alone. Yet, researchers with federal agencies acknowledge they still know little about the virus' origin and how it spreads, especially with heightened biosecurity measures at commercial poultry farms and the apparent lack of wide