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New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop ...
In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...
The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...
New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.
Despite pleas from pigeon fanciers, the EU isn’t loosening its grip on avian flu rules just yet, keeping racing pigeons ...
Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...
A deep-prevention approach – human, animal and environmental – is needed to respond to challenges that require concerted ...
The bird flu strain he’s more worried about as a pandemic risk is H7N9, which was first reported in humans in China in 2013 and expanded to more than 1,500 people by 2017.
BIRD flu has been detected in an English farm, it’s been announced. A case of the H5N1 bird flu was found in poultry in West Yorkshire. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...