Inflated food prices are already on the minds of Americans in the lead-up to the holidays, and bird flu has the potential to hinder Thanksgiving festivities, specifically. Will you be greeted by sky-high prices or poultry purchase limits when you head to the store for a holiday shop? Here's what we know.

But bird flu is on the rise in the U.S. again. The recent jump in cases might hike the price of your Thanksgiving, but it won’t make dinner unsafe. Cooking poultry to 165°F kills the virus. Plus, infected poultry is unlikely to appear in the food supply in the first place.

Turkeys in Wayne County texted positive for High Path Avian Influenza (HPAI), the first case for commercial poultry in the state since January 2025. Prior to this, North Carolina had 14 commercial flocks and 12 backyard flocks impacted by avian influenza.

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help,

Austria reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a goose farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday, as Europe faces a surge in the deadly disease. The virus was detected in a flock of 645 geese in the town of Steyr,

According to a new study, an evolutionary shift around 2020 helped the bird flu virus adapt better to wild birds.

A county's fifth case of avian flu has been found in a small backyard flock of poultry, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The latest case of the H5N1 virus was confirmed among the birds in Lawshall, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

The U.S. is seeing a rise in bird flu, with 1.66M birds affected. Colorado remains unaffected in commercial flocks.