INDIANAPOLIS – Avian Influenza, H5N1, or simply the bird flu, is continuing to cause problems for farmers across the state. Just within the last week, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health reported that eight flocks have been impacted by the virus.

An ongoing Listeria outbreak has mostly affected people living in long-term care facilities and people who were already hospitalized prior to becoming sick from the infection.

Bird flu is spreading across Indiana. Since the start of the year, it has hit twelve farms and affected more than six million birds.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is monitoring a recent confirmation of chronic wasting disease in a deer in southwest Indiana near the Kentucky border. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is caused by abnormal proteins that affect white-tailed deer,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling this multi-year bird flu outbreak the largest animal health emergency in U.S. history. The flu is widespread among birds worldwide, it's infecting poultry and U.

The U.S. is in peak flu season, as the CDC releases a map of influenza activity across the country. See which states are at the highest risk of flu activity.

The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses.

Braun put out a statement underlining that the state was monitoring both the impact of the outbreak on farmers and any risk of human exposure.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources confirms it is closely watching Henderson and Union counties amid concerns the disease may spread.