While humans can contract bird flu, UNLV professor and epidemiologist Brian Labus says the latest strains are “not a general ...

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks catching the virus in Connecticut. There have been no instances yet of commercial ...