Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

With more-publicized outbreaks occurring on industrial-size farms, backyard owners may assume that their flocks' smaller numbers provide protection against avian flu. But there is still a risk ...

The government is investigating a rare strain of avian flu, H5N9, detected on a duck farm in central California, according to ...