Bird flu spreads to bald eagles as outbreak sweeps across US

Avian sickness responsible for millions of deaths in commercial poultry farms in worst outbreak since 2015

The bald eagle, America's national bird, is the latest to fall prey to the highly contagious bird flu that has been sweeping across the US, affecting birds in a majority of states.

The US is enduring the worst bird flu outbreak since 2015 in terms of domestic poultry deaths, according to new data from the US Department of Agriculture, with the avian sickness responsible for millions of deaths in commercial farms.