So far, culling infected flocks hasn't been enough to curtail the virus, identified Wednesday in another Michigan commercial poultry facility.
Bird flu is, famously, a disease that infects birds. But earlier this week, federal and state authorities reported that a ...
Dairy cows in multiple US states have fallen ill with bird flu, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The virus has killed millions of birds worldwide, but this is the first time ...
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Unlike the coronavirus, the H5N1 virus has been studied for years. Vaccines and treatments are available should they ever become necessary. By Apoorva Mandavilli Bird flu outbreaks among dairy ...
The bird flu keeps catching the world off guard by finding new ways to spread — this time finding an unexpected host in cows. As of April 4, the virus had been confirmed in more than a dozen ...
Bird flu is once again setting many of us on edge. Early this week, health officials announced a human case of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Texas, one that may have been caught from ...
"Bird flu has been around for basically as long as we've been thinking about human flu," Scarpino says. "It's a pretty persistent problem because … it's always spilling over into mammals ...
As a disease detective, the danger of the next pandemic is always on our radar. The 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 50 to 100 million people and infected one-third of the population of just 1.5 ...
The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years. Over the last couple weeks, it’s begun to infect cattle — and one dairy ...