Avian Flu California 2024.  — a year after the bird flu led to record egg prices and widespread shortages, the disease known as highly pathogenic avian influenza is wreaking havoc in california, which escaped the earlier wave of outbreaks that devastated poultry farms in the midwest. Avian influenza (ai), commonly called bird flu, is a disease found in some populations of wild water fowl that can infect chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese and guinea fowl, as well as a wide variety of other domesticated and wild birds.

No person has become ill from an infected cat, said richmann.  — for two and a half years, a deadly strain of avian influenza often referred to as h5n1 has been ravaging poultry farms.