All the rhetoric dismissing COVID as “just the flu” even as it killed more than 1.1 million Americans has left us less capable of handling the next epidemic, writes
The H5N1 highly pathogenic bird flu virus has been spreading among dairy cows, and fragments of avian influenza have appeared in milk being sold at stores.
Sonoma County, California, declared an agricultural disaster when two poultry farms had to kill their entire flocks to try to stop “highly pathogenic avian influenza” — or bird flu — from spreading. This particular strain of bird flu,
Traces of bird flu have been found in 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Thursday. The FDA added that early tests still suggest that the milk supply is safe because pasteurization kills the virus,
Are cases of bird flu being missed in dairy workers? Experts say it's likely that there are some cases going unreported. Protecting dairy workers should be a top priority.
This doctor has something to squawk about. A former surgeon general is sounding the alarm that the current situation with bird flu feels like 2020 all over again — and warned that the virus could jump to humans any day now.
The risk of contracting bird flu is low for most Americans, experts say The Food and Drug Administration announced this week that fragments of the virus that causes bird flu — the highly contagious virus that’s commonly found in aquatic birds — have been found in samples of milk bought at the grocery store.
Colorado became the ninth U.S. state to report a dairy herd infected with bird flu on Friday as federal lawmakers urged the Biden administration to further contain the virus' spread and tests of milk suggested the outbreak is more widespread than previously thought.
Government health officials continue to monitor an outbreak of avian flu that has spread in the U.S. The H5N1 strain has sickened several mammals this year, according to releases from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,