Egg prices have surged nationwide due to an outbreak of avian influenza, which has greatly reduced the number of egg-laying ...
The avian flu virus continues to affect poultry producers and dairy farms in 2025. In North Carolina alone, the virus has ...
Mark Paylor is a poultry research specialist at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Paylor said while their flock is strictly for research and academic purposes, he and other ...
If one bird in a flock gets sick, farmers are required to euthanize the entire flock to keep the virus from spreading.
In the U.S., there have been 70 reported cases of bird flu in humans since 2024, but none in North Carolina and no known ...
Commercial egg farmers in North Carolina were among those in several states to lose millions of birds to the avian influenza ...
On her first day on the job last week, new US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins held a meeting to review the ...
Science is valuable to society, but we will need to overcome these 3 challenges to fully maximize its potential for the ...
Egg prices in the Charlotte area have surged by up to 175% in less than two months, with some stores now charging as much as ...
Avian flu has been present in North America since late 2021, according to DWR, although I recall waterfowl hunts nearly two decades earlier where biologists were swabbing harvested birds as part ...
Shoppers are feeling the pinch of inflation over the cost of eggs. We detail which stores have had the biggest price ...
The US Senators from North Carolina are part of a bipartisan group pushing the USDA to make changes to help stop the spread of the bird flu.