With egg prices so high and Chicago and many suburbs allowing people to raise hens, some are thinking about backyard chickens ...

As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and Annie Lawson ...

A 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is Mexico’s first confirmed human case of bird flu, health officials said Friday. Type A H5N1 influenza has been ...

Arrivals and departures are staggered over several weeks, but at peak stopover, it's one of the great sights of natural ...

Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary ...

The rise of bird flu across the U.S. has resulted in egg prices surging to more than $12 a dozen in some parts of the country this year.

An ornithologist spent four decades tracking 40,000 bird deaths at a single building. His records paved the way to better ...

We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. “We see continued reports of cats with bird flu infection from across the country, and it’s ...

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

The Trump administration is cutting $125 million in funding for the Chicago Department of Public Health that will hit 22 ...

Avian Influenza or bird flu, has made its way to Crawford County in Illinois. According to a press release from the Crawford ...

IDPH’s funding for infectious disease prevention will see a “debilitating impact,” Director Sameer Vohra said in a statement. IDPH has been using the funding to track the spread of diseases, invest in ...