The avian (bird) flu isn’t just helping fuel an increase in egg prices, it’s also killing wild birds across the United States and here in Indiana. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported on Monday that it has detected H5Ni bird flu virus in 30 counties.

There is no cure for the disease, which has a high mortality rate among birds but remains a low risk to people, according to the CDC

More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness. Volunteers in masks and gloves have been collecting the 15-pound birds from shorelines,

The bird flu is taking out wildlife in some parts of Indiana. Birds known as the sandhill cranes are turning up dead on frozen lakes in LaPorte County, Indiana. Sign up for our Newsletters Around 600 cranes have died in Jackson County,