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Oklahoma became the 31st state with a confirmed case of avian flu in chickens over the weekend.
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The patient, an inmate in a pre-release program, was involved in culling poultry presumptively infected with H5N1 bird flu at a farm. The virus, while deadly for birds, poses a low risk to humans.
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The price of eggs and dairy products has increased in Oklahoma. Global issues, pent-up demand from the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation and bird flu are a few of the reasons for rising costs.
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State officials and scientists are cautioning backyard flock owners to be on high alert for bird flu. The highly contagious disease has reached small flocks in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
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Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually protected behind glass, making it harder for the bird flu to reach them.
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Nearly 23 million birds have died as a highly pathogenic bird flu virus tears its way through farms and chicken yards. It has spread to at least 24 states in less than two months.
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Poultry producers and backyard flock owners are watching closely as a deadly strain of bird flu spreads across the eastern half of the U.S.
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After the death of a bald eagle and other protected birds, the state of Oklahoma is working with the federal government to investigate.
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A new study shows that as people mostly remained indoors during lockdowns last year, many bird species found less noisy and polluted cities more inviting.
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After a volunteer collected more than 200 dead migratory birds from the sidewalks around the World Trade Center, bird groups in the city called on the complex to dim unnecessary lights at night.