Bad flu season could help bird flu mutate, doctors fear
The flu has hit Minnesota especially hard this season, sending more than 5,600 people to the hospital and threatening to help bird flu mutate and become a more serious public health risk.
US gives conditional nod to Zoetis' bird flu vaccine for poultry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a conditional approval to Zoetis to use its bird flu vaccine in poultry, the animal healthcare company said on Friday.
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Senator warns how Trump is raising risk of ANOTHER pandemic
Senator Gary Peters, a democrat from Michigan, warned the Trump administration that its blackout of 'critical' health information could cause a 'deadly pandemic' from H5N1, or bird flu.
Trump and Kennedy fire 5,200 HHS workers and gut the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Kennedy, a vicious opponent of vaccines and public health more broadly, is rapidly fulfilling his campaign promise to “give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”
Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter, dealing a blow to public health efforts as fears rise over bird flu.
Wind-blown avian feces may be route of transmission for bird flu, infectious disease expert warns
Dr. Michael Osterholm says that the primary kind of birds impacted by the flu is migratory waterfowl, like geese and ducks, and these birds often hang out in farm fields where they defecate.
Wyoming identifies first human case bird flu - woman hospitalised. From backyard flock?
The Wyoming Department of Health said on Friday it has identified its first human case of H5N1 bird flu in the region, making it the third confirmed instance of hospitalization related to the infection in the United States.
Bird flu is killing wild birds and mammals, too. Brown said it is unlike anything he’s seen in 25 years of practice.
The highly pathogenic avian flu strain is infecting animals and people on dairy and poultry farms, but mortality is rising among wild birds, mammals, and even pet cats.
The concerning part is that it means that the bird flu virus (H5N1) continues to circulate and may continue in this way indefinitely
In a question and answer format, UC Riverside public policy professor Richard Carpiano and medical school professor Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs to discuss the policy response and medical issues concerning the bird flu threat.
Farming Today - 13/02/2025 - Farmers say the latest measures to combat bird flu don't go far enough, as cases rise in wild birds and poultry - BBC Sounds
New bird flu restrictions introduced; some farmers want the Government to go further.
Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate - KFF Health News
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.