We're Infectious Disease Experts. Here's How Soon Bird Flu Could Cause A Pandemic.
Every infectious disease expert advised against letting you or your pet consume raw milk, because bird flu virus has been detected in it. But feel free to keep drinking pasteurized milk. By heating milk to a specific temperature over time, pasteurized milk kills potential viruses like H5N1 and continues to be safe to drink.
Bird flu ‘not going away,’ experts warn
The outbreak of bird flu that began in the United States in 2022 among wild birds and poultry has since spread to dairy cattle, at least one pig, a growing number of people — and even cats.
The Bird Flu Could Be Way Worse Than We Know, According to Experts
If bird flu is only spreading through direct animal contact, how did veterinarians with no known exposure get infected? That’s the question keeping scientists up at night. With cases appearing in cows,
Here’s why the U.S. is not working to vaccinate birds against avian flu
More than 160 million birds have been culled during the bird-flu outbreak that started in 2022. So why is the U.S. not vaccinating chickens?
How worried should we be about bird flu?
More than 112,000 birds have been culled in Northern Ireland due to avian flu in just over two weeks. All poultry in Northern Ireland, from commercial to backyard and hobby flocks, are currently under a housing order meaning they must be kept indoors or otherwise separate from wild birds,
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Trump administration takes aim at bird flu. For now, the cattle will have to wait
The USDA's new plan tackles H5N1 bird flu as an issue of economic concern, and leaves questions about how to manage the ...
A veterinarian who specializes in dairy cows talks about avian influenza
In March 2024, for the first time in the United States, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was ...
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Bird flu has jumped to cows. Are humans next?
In recent months, the avian influenza virus, commonly known as bird flu, has taken alarming steps toward becoming a bigger ...
Sacramento doctor: Not every child will beat the odds if we don’t take bird flu seriously | Opinion
We know that we are not adequately testing for bird flu in the Central Valley. This means we may have more cases unaccounted ...
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Is there a bird flu vaccine? Experts discuss progress amid ‘alarming' outbreak
"And that's what can cause the next pandemic," he explains. Just last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Trump administration weighs pulling funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract that was awarded to Moderna for the development of its bird ...
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India reports first H5N1 bird flu cases in cats, sparking pandemic fears
India has reported its first cases of the H5N1 avian influenza virus infecting domestic cats, with cases documented in ...
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Avian flu ‘would dwarf the COVID pandemic in terms of impact,’ researcher says
Even for the most pandemic-weary among us, avian influenza has become impossible to ignore, especially now that Ottawa has purchased half a million doses of vaccine. Recent headlines have ...
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Egg prices soar in NY as bird flu rages
NEW YORK: A box of 12 eggs reached an average price of $8.47 in New York on Friday — much higher than consumers are used to even after years of inflation — as the avian flu pandemic ravages poultry in ...