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HPAI has had the greatest impact on pullets and egg-laying poultry, where bird housing density is higher, said Dr. Lisa ...
Influenza-free is the way to be! North Carolina poultry has been designated High Path Avian Influenza-free by the World Organization for Animal Health, allowing the state to resume exports and ...
North Carolina egg and poultry producers are trying to prevent the spread of avian flu known as H5N1. Egg shortages caused by the virus have resulted in higher egg prices at the grocery store ...
A second case of high-path avian influenza has been confirmed in a commercial poultry operation in Sampson County, North Carolina.A flock of turkeys has tested positive for high-path avian ...
The incident was first reported on Feb. 26, and by March 7, North Carolina’s Wildlife Resources ... carcasses did have highly pathogenic avian influenza,” Turner said.
How has highly pathogenic avian flu or HPAI affected the poultry industry so far in 2025? On the laying hen side alone, we've lost over 3.3 million birds in North Carolina since the start of 2025 ...
OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Nearly 400 birds — mostly brown pelicans — were found dead from suspected highly pathogenic avian influenza ... biologist for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources ...
The H5N1 avian flu virus has affected nearly 1.4 million birds. With the most recent outbreak, three of Arizona's largest layer farms have been infected, leading to the loss of more than 5 million ...
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte—reveals the H5N1 influenza ...