The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa county. Risk to public is low.

Avian influenza has been spreading at higher levels worldwide over the past five years, including in wild birds and poultry farms in Europe. The virus has occasionally jumped from birds into ...

Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is back in the headlines as the viral disease has infected more than 13,000 wild birds in the United States in the past year, according to the Centers for ...

ABC15 inquired with Hickman's Family Farms about the layoff of over 80 employees due to the avian flu, which resulted in the euthanasia of most egg-laying hens.

Hickman’s Family Farms is beginning to lay off employees, after avian flu forced the company to euthanize about 95% of its egg-laying hen population, about 6 million birds in all.