A healthy chicken typically breathes through its closed beak. If a chicken is breathing with its beak open, it may be sick or experiencing stress, such as from heat or anxiety. Respiratory illnesses ...

As more outbreaks of HPAI are confirmed in South Korea’s poultry flocks, further cases in domestic and wild birds are also reported widely across Asia.

The poultry roundworm Ascaridia galli remains one of the most common gastrointestinal parasites affecting domestic chickens worldwide. Its direct faecal–oral transmission and ability to thrive under ...

A recent Virology Journal study evaluates cross-species transmission of newly emerged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants between humans and poultry species. Study: ...

A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...

This year, the CDC reports 895 people — 209 of which were hospitalized — contracted Salmonella infections from backyard flocks of poultry like chickens, ducks and geese. It was the “largest number of ...

Innovative treatment paves the way for reducing antimicrobial resistance in the treatment of a deadly infection in chickens, according to an international team of researchers. Innovative treatment ...

HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Department of Health in Hernando County discovered a locally-acquired West Nile virus infection in sentinel chickens. DOH-Hernando is informing residents of ...

Within the past 10 days, three different states in the U.S. have reported new known and likely bird flu infections in humans: The first two are a confirmed case in a dairy worker in Nevada and a ...

Some chicken contains the same antibiotic-resistant E. Coli that's been found to cause recurrent bladder infections. What do some persistent human bladder infections and some innocent-looking chicken ...