Delayed CDC report shows increased evidence of bird flu spread to people
The report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in dairy herds is spreading undetected in cows, and the spillover into ...
Two eastern NC counties report avian flu in wild birds, USDA confirms
Two Eastern North Carolina Counties are among the three North Carolina counties that have had wild birds test positive for ...
Acidification kills H5N1 in waste milk, reducing risk of bird flu
Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, ...
Bird flu kills 22 Texas vultures, spurring warning about virus
Texas Parks and Wildlife said the most recent infected birds came from Landa Park in New Braunfels. In total, 22 vultures ...
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US poultry farms forced to eliminate 50,5 million chickens because of avian flu
More than 50,5 million birds in US poultry farms have been slaughtered because of outbreaks of avian flu among flocks in over forty states, according to the Department of Agriculture. The disease ...
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What is the avian flu, and how is it spreading in the U.S.?
A Cornell University researcher shares about the avian flu virus: where it comes from, and how it’s spreading from domestic ...
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Avian Influenza FAQs
Avian influenza (aka avian flu or bird flu) is a type of influenza that primarily infects birds but can sometime cause infection in mammals like cows, and rarely humans. How widespread is avian flu?
Bird flu infections went undetected in veterinarians, CDC study shows
Blood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the virus is capturing, according to a new study by federal and state disease ...