A family-run farm in Chicago's south suburbs was grappling Wednesday with what they said was a devastating case of bird flu.
The saga at the farm began last week, when a handful of chickens started dying without any symptoms at Kakadoodle Farms in Matteson. As Andrew Ramos reports, investigators from the U.S. Department of ...
COOK COUNTY - The Thomas family, owners of the Kakadoodle farm in Matteson, suffered a devastating loss when avian bird flu wiped out their entire flock of 3,000 hens. The highly contagious virus was ...
Vaccinations for flu and COVID-19 in Chicago are down from last year, according to a report by local health officials.
Bird flu continues to affect animal species everywhere, including a Chilean flamingo and a harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo in ...
A harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo died from the bird flu this month at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, officials said.
Testing has confirmed that HPAI was the cause of death for Teal, a Chilean flamingo chick, on Jan. 8; and Slater, a harbor ...
Teal the Chilean flamingo had just been born last fall and Slater the harbor seal was often seen training with keepers ...
People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
According to a spokesperson for the zoo, testing confirmed that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was the cause of ...
Their deaths came within a day of each other, the Chicago zoo said in a Jan. 15 news release. Teal, a months-old Chilean ...
The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.