Rachel Maddow reports on the damage aleady being done by the bird flu outbreak and how Donald Trump's freeze on communication from health agencies threatens efforts to contain the disease.

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious illness.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said she has “a lot to learn” about the bird flu.

The consumer price index found that egg prices have increased 36.8 percent from this time last year, and experts believe the increase in price is the result of avian influenza, which is rapidly depleting the supply of chickens.

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted millions of dollars to Moderna to speed up bird flu vaccine development.

Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of the incoming Trump administration ... to the avian flu outbreak.”

Trump’s decision is shortsighted and put the rest of the world is put at greater risk, say public health scholars

We sent them all of the information on our work,” a Biden health official told NBC News. Public health officials raise concern that a lack of coordination could imperil the response to the emerging H5N1 threat.

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for National and Global Health Law.

Sharply rising egg prices across the United States blamed on the ongoing H5N1 avian influenza outbreak are mostly being passed along to consumers by grocers and restaurateurs, but some are holding back.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention communication delay could hinder coordinating responses at the state and local levels.