Chicken Bird Flu 2024 Outbreak. An outbreak of bird flu was detected in iowa on tuesday in a commercial flock of 4.2 million chickens, according to the state department of agriculture. Two further outbreaks on australian poultry farms followed, prompting hundreds of thousands of chickens to be culled, while deadly strains of bird flu.

And has raised questions about how safe poultry and eggs are to eat. Bird flu has been detected at the largest chicken egg manufacturer in the u.s.