The Consumer Price Index found that egg prices have increased 36.8 percent from this time last year, and experts believe the increase in price is the result of avian influenza, which is rapidly depleting the supply of chickens.

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted millions of dollars to Moderna to speed up bird flu vaccine development.

Trump told TIME in April he would close the White House's pandemic preparedness office. It's losing most of its staff during the transition, according to Biden officials.

Trump administration orders federal health agencies to halt external communications, raising concerns among officials. Read more from The Washington Post.

Trump’s decision is shortsighted and put the rest of the world is put at greater risk, say public health scholars

We sent them all of the information on our work,” a Biden health official told NBC News. Public health officials raise concern that a lack of coordination could imperil the response to the emerging H5N1 threat.

Sharply rising egg prices across the United States blamed on the ongoing H5N1 avian influenza outbreak are mostly being passed along to consumers by grocers and restaurateurs, but some are holding back.

An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far ... especially as the incoming Trump administration takes over, Doron and Figueroa said.

Crack up: Egg prices are skyrocketing, and it’s pushed some Chicagoans to hunt for deals. The Sun-Times visited 14 stores in various neighborhoods, from Big Oaks to Edgewater, Morgan Park to Midway, Bucktown and Austin, to see what consumers were paying.

The state Department of Agriculture announced Friday that the agency has detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a commercial poultry producer in Elbert County, approximately 100 ...

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious illness.