Australia, New Zealand brace for looming bird flu threat
Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, ...
Topic: bird flu
The CDC confirmed two new bird flu cases, bringing the human tally to 17. The update raises questions about how the health ...
As bird flu outbreak expands in California, dairy farms report it’s worse than they expected
A third farmworker has tested positive for bird flu in California, according to the state’s health department. If confirmed ...
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The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?
Two more people in the US have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, highlighting the need for expanded influenza ...
US to double emergency bird flu vaccines as more people, herds become infected
Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the ...
Why fears of human-to-human bird flu spread in Missouri are overblown
Hospital workers reported respiratory symptoms after encountering a Missouri patient with H5N1 who had not been exposed to ...
Two California farm workers test positive for bird flu
Two California farm workers have tested positive for bird flu, federal health officials said Thursday, marking the first two ...
Hungary and Italy report outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu, WOAH says
Hungary and Italy have both reported an outbreak of the severe H5N1 avian influenza virus in the first such cases in the ...
Bird flu patient had no apparent contact with animals—there's still no evidence of sustained human-to-human spread
Six health care workers in the US who were in close contact with a patient known to have bird flu developed mild respiratory ...
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Q&A: How California, now an epicenter for bird flu in dairy cattle, is monitoring the virus
STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...
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Sequencing wastewater material may be the key to getting a grip on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak
Dhillon is an instructor in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
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Outbreak Hits Vietnam Zoos And Virus Spreads To Antarctica – Latest On H5N1 Bird Flu
US states had reported outbreaks of H5N1 flu in dairy cows as of October 4, 2024. That amounted to a total of 255 affected ...