influenza

Avian influenza — which has devastated poultry flocks, wildlife populations and increasingly poses a public health risk — has now been confirmed in wi...

ALBANY (TNS) — Bracing for the spread of a particularly infectious variant of bird flu,New Yorkhas started testing its dairy milk. Experts say drinkin...

WELLSVILLE — No chickens came home to roost Monday night after the village board called yet another hearing concerning the keeping of chickens within ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian flu ha...

WELLSVILLE — After few new arguments to the proposed law that will allow for the harboring of chickens in the village, Mayor Randy Shaler tabled the b...

NEW YORK — Live poultry markets in New York City raced to sell off all their chickens and other fowl Friday after seven cases of avian flu were detect...

GENEVA — Avian flu, which has struck the U.S. egg industry and caused prices in the supermarket to spike, is showing up in wild birds as well. Emily D...

ALBANY (TNS) —Democratsin the state Legislature are renewing a push to mandate that all eggs sold inNew Yorkare from free-range producers who do not k...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Sen.Chuck Schumer is ringing the alarm on grocery prices potentially rising again should the federal government decide to "stop helpi...

New coronavirus vaccines are available, and state health officials encourage anyone 65 and older, at risk for severe COVID-19 or who has never receive...

When we talk about catching waves over the summer, this is not the kind of wave we mean. Because as summer winds down, it’s not ocean waves many of us...

EVART, Mich. — Alison Smith stared at the virtually empty dairy barn inside the Osceola County Fairgrounds, once bustling with teens and preteens prep...

During COVID, public health experts and armchair epidemiologists became obsessed with poop — or, more accurately, the secrets it held about the state ...

OLEAN — Like the rest of New York state and much of the U.S., Cattaraugus County is facing a triple threat as winter approaches, Public Health Directo...

OLEAN — The low numbers of new COVID-19 cases are a good sign, but they can be misleading, Cattaraugus County Public Health Director Dr. Kevin D. Watk...