About 1.8 million more chickens must be killed in Nebraska to prevent the spread of a highly pathogenic bird flu virus, state officials said, as the U.S. sees its worst outbreak of the disease in ...

THE NUMBER OF BIRD FLU CASES AND CONCERNS GROW ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M BILL SCHAMMERT. NEBRASKA HAS FIVE CASES. THE LAST FOUR REPORTED IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. THE CASES ARE ...

The fast-spreading avian flu virus was confirmed for the first time in Nebraska, at a commercial egg-laying farm that housed a flock of 1.7 million chickens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

So far, more than 60 cases of bird flu have been reported across the U.S. since April. In Nebraska, five cases appeared in poultry flocks, but none in humans or dairy cattle.

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts declared a state of emergency on Thursday, after federal agriculture officials confirmed a second farm site had tested positive for the rapidly spreading avian flu ...

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture said the state's 13th case of bird flu will result in the death of 1.8 million chickens at a farm in Dixon County. By Greg Wehner Fox News Published November ...

Nebraska's first reported case of West Nile virus for the 2025 season was detected in the East Central District Health ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (UNL) - Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his ...

According to data from Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services, the flu was virtually non-existent toward the end of 2020. But later in 2021, cases started trickling up again.

Experts are actually a little more concerned the virus might mix with something like the seasonal flu and then become easier to spread, like we saw with the swine flu in 2008. The CDC says it is ...