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, ...
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Oceania Prepares for Potential Bird Flu Crisis: A Tightening Web of Biosecurity and Vigilance
Australia and New Zealand increase biosecurity and test shore birds for bird flu as the H5N1 strain, which has impacted Asia, ...
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 ...
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Two dairy workers infected with bird flu, this time in California
Health officials said this week that the 15th and 16th human cases of the bird flu this year were detected, this time from the dairy sector in California ...
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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As bird flu infects people, cows in Central Valley, our health officials can’t let post-COVID guard down
COVID-19 is no longer the public threat it was in 2020, writes retired Santa Cruz physician Jeoffry Gordon, but our public officials have not learned from the tragedy. Bird flu, known as H5N1, is on ...
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CDC conducting probe into bird flu contracted by Missouri resident
The Missouri case is the only bird flu diagnosis in the United States this year where the person hadn't had direct contact with infected poultry or dairy cattle. The remainder of the 16 people ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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 ...