Herald & Review18h
Bird flu: What Illinois residents should know following first US death from the virus
Bird flu is increasingly sparking concern across the country and in Illinois, following news this week of the first human ...
Eggs soar to nearly $9 at some Chicago stores. Will prices go back down?
The Sun-Times visited 14 stores in various neighborhoods from Big Oaks to Edgewater, Morgan Park to Midway, and Bucktown and ...
Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment
America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.
MIT Technology Review1h
How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...
New Scientist18h
How worried should we be about a bird flu pandemic?
The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the ...
WCIA Champaign on MSN13h
U of I wildlife medical director offers advice to protect animals from Bird Flu
On Wednesday, WCIA reported that doctors said not to worry too much after Bird Flu killed the first American. But should you ...
Bird deaths plummet at McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed
Crash fatalities down more than 90% this fall with 18 deaths compared to 1,280 deaths in the fall of 2023, Field Museum ...
MercoPress16h
US poultry farms forced to eliminate 50,5 million chickens because of avian flu
Symptoms of bird flu in humans have previously ranged from eye redness and mild flu-like symptoms, to pneumonia and difficulty breathing. World Health Organization (WHO) data shows that only 868 ...
Thousands of bird deaths averted at McCormick Place thanks to polka-dotted windows
Polka-dotted window film was applied to windows at McCormick Place last summer ahead of the fall migration. The drop in ...