The strategy for tracking bird flu in US dairy cattle falls worryingly short of what is needed to prevent the outbreak from widening and potentially spreading to humans ...
Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would facilitate its spread in people.
So far, culling infected flocks hasn't been enough to curtail the virus, identified Wednesday in another Michigan commercial ...
The new hybrid variant of bird flu spreading in American cows is no more dangerous to human health and the public should be ...
Location of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in cows may help explain pattern of illness in H5N1 bird flu outbreak in ...
As the virus makes the jump from birds to cows and other mammals, what’s stopping it from jumping to all of us? In the last few years, a couple dozen people ... we’re in a new era of bird flu.
Health officials have detected fragments of a bird flu virus in milk. What does that mean for the milk supply?
An official with the World Health Organization said Thursday that human-to-human transmission of bird flu would be an “enormous concern” among an outbreak among dairy cows in the United States.
Farms in several states are quarantining cows amid ... for bird flu. Last week, Dr Darin Detwiler, former FDA and USDA food safety advisor, told DailyMail.com that Americans should avoid ...
The H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found in more herds of cows and infected one human in the past week, although health officials say the risk to humans is still low.
“The risk [of bird flu] remains low at this time, but we continue to be in a strong readiness posture as new data becomes available,” said Vivien Dugan at the US Centers for Disease Control ...
The 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 50 to 100 million people ... work as a US-CDC Resident Adviser for the Pakistan Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training program (FELTP), and we had to ...