Earlier this month, federal health officials announced an allocation of $72 million to vaccine manufacturers to ensure that the existing birdfluvaccines are ready for use if needed. While ...
The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird ... vaccine development. If a cluster of human cases occurs, and ...
said the price of a traditional Thanksgiving turkey had risen 21% over the last year and now stands at nearly US$29 for a 7,5 kilograms bird. Record outbreaks of avian flu have also swept across ...
The US will expand milk testing as part of efforts to curb the spread of birdflu in dairy cows, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The push will begin next month, with the ...
Birdflu was detected in a pig at a backyard farm in Oregon. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine. Finding birdflu in a pig raises worries that the virus could ...
The birdflu was initially detected in poultry on the noncommercial farm. Seventy birds were euthanized to prevent the virus from spreading, and out of an abundance of caution, other farm animals ...