Despite its reputation as the Peach State, poultry rules the roost in Georgia. It’s the most valuable segment of the state’s agriculture sector and is worth an estimated $6.7 billion, according to a ...

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

Public health disasters like a pandemic could strike at any time and a national group gave only a middle grade to South ...

Avian flu has wreaked havoc in other parts of the world. According to the World Organization for Animal Health, the United States, where the virus has severely impacted cattle and poultry, currently ...

In late fall, approximately 237,000 wild birds, representing 32 waterfowl species, fly south along the Atlantic Flyway from ... Cartanza knows the odds are high that the wild birds are carrying avian ...

The virus already has caused devastating effects in the state, which has seen the second-highest number of outbreaks in ...