There are two types of H5N1: Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ... backyard flock of 13 chickens and ducks located in Clayton County south of Atlanta. This was the third detection of HPAI in a backyard flock and fourth ...

The first case of avian flu in a commercial poultry operation has been found, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture.

Georgia’s Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper said his department activated its emergency operations center on Thursday night.

The announcement that a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been found in a second flock comes less than a week after the Georgia Department of Agriculture announced a case in a flock about 200 yards away from the newly confirmed case, according to a state release.

The state Department of Agriculture announced Friday that the agency has detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a commercial poultry producer in Elbert County, approximately 100 miles (165 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta. The agency ...

Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producing state. Last week, bird flu was found for the first time in a commercial poultry plant in the state.

A second commercial case of avian influenza, or the “bird flu,” has been confirmed in northeast Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture.

The Trump Administration has frozen many federal health agencies’ communications with the public until at least the end of the month.

For the first time during the 2022-25 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak, the presence of the virus has been confirmed in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia.

HPAI is no longer just a poultry industry problem. The efforts to stamp out the disease in North America has been ongoing for three years and has been unsuccessful to date. It may be time for a new approach.

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that were infected through the nose or oesophagus did not. All animals infected with the virus still shed infectious virus particles, meaning they could infect other animals.

This is also the second case identified in Elbert County, though based on reporting by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, the third overall detection in the state.