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New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.
At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that ...
Future Concern: Bird Flu. Unless you work with animals, you can probably breathe easy here. To date, there haven’t been any cases of human-to-human transmission of H5N1, or bird flu.
Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...
This year, 30 million chickens have been culled across nine states as a result of bird flu outbreaks. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post. Ohio, where a majority of this year’s spread was ...
Even though the 2024-2025 migratory bird season is winding down, concerns about highly pathogenic avian influenza — commonly known as bird flu — remain. The public is paying attention.
That makes the arrival of bird flu on a dairy farm a slow-motion disaster. The incentives for farmers to cooperate remain dismal. Research by experts at Cornell University suggests bird flu ...
The H5N1 bird flu has been spreading widely among wild birds, poultry and other animals around the world for several years, and starting early last year became a problem in people and cows in ...