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Experts believe three more cats in Los Angeles County have been infected with H5N1 bird flu. Two others succumbed to the disease earlier this month after drinking recalled raw milk from Fresno-based Raw Farm LLC dairies.
Dec 19, 2024
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Avian flu, also commonly referred to as bird flu, primarily spreads among wild birds such as ducks and gulls and can also infect farmed and domestic birds such as chickens, turkeys and quails. While the disease mainly affects ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Public health authorities are seeking to determine if a Marin County, California, child stricken with flu could have potentially contracted the illness by drinking infected raw milk that was subject to a recall.
Dec 11, 2024
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McGill University scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection. Their work is published in the journal Science Advances.
Dec 2, 2024
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The World Health Organization on Thursday urged countries to step up surveillance for bird flu after the first case was detected in a child in the United States.
Nov 28, 2024
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A study of 700 people who tested positive for influenza suggests that their risk of infecting household contacts was 18.8% and that the estimated effectiveness of flu vaccines against secondary infections is 21.0%.
Nov 27, 2024
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H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020. But why were we worrying specifically ...
Nov 5, 2024
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The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird flu.
Nov 5, 2024
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A second person in Missouri who wasn't exposed to either poultry or dairy cows has been infected with bird flu, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
Oct 25, 2024
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Health officials said Thursday that there's no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious infection in Missouri.
Oct 24, 2024
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