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California Gives $25 Gift Cards to Boost Bird Flu Testing
Clinics run by a state vendor near affected farms are giving out $25 gift cards to people who get a swab test for H5N1 bird ...
California offering $25 gift cards to encourage bird flu testing
Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...
Trump's stepped up immigration efforts hurt work to address bird flu among workers
The Trump Administration's zeal for rounding up and deporting those migrants is making efforts to combat bird flu harder as ...
Is avian flu over? Wild mammals, including foxes and raccoons, test positive in Texas
Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High ...
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What scientists fear most about bird flu spread in the U.S.
Forty five states are now doing some form of testing on raw milk from farms. Poulsen said it's helped to slow the spread of ...
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This state is offering people $25 to get screened for bird flu
Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...
Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn
More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.
Doctors: How likely is it that bird flu will spread to humans on a mass scale?
Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...
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How bird flu differs from seasonal flu − an infectious disease researcher explains
Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...