by Amy Maxmen Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and udders slack. But the scale of the farmers’...
Tag: <span>BIRD FLU</span>
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There’s bad news on the H5N1 front The genetic sequence of the bird flu virus that infected a teenager in British Columbia shows that the virus had undergone mutational changes that would make it easier for that version of H5N1 to infect people, Helen Branswell reports.
The teenager remains in critical condition in hospital. While there is no evidence the patient infected anyone else — and researchers believe the virus mutated while they were infected — it’s a concerning development in a virus that officials have reassured the public is not an immediate threat. “By no means is this Day 1...
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Bird flu was found in a pig for the first time. This is not good
NIAID H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a pig on a farm in Oregon, USDA reported yesterday. The pig did not display signs of illness. There were five pigs on the farm, all of which have been euthanized to allow for testing. A second pig may also have been infected, Oregon authorities later...
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‘Can I get bird flu from eating eggs?’ ‘Drinking milk?’ A California disease expert explains
Fernanda Galan, The Sacramento Bee Credit: CC0 Public Domain As poultry farms and dairies across California battle bird flu outbreaks, some are wondering if their food is safe to eat. Since highly pathogenic avian influenza surfaced in the United States in January 2022, the virus has been detected in wild birds and domestic poultry, according to the federal Centers...
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Missouri bird flu case raises possibility of human transmission
September 16, 2024 by Robin Foster In a disclosure that can’t eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials have reported that a person who lived with a Missouri resident infected with H5N1 became sick the same day. That close contact “was...
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Humans infecting animals infecting humans—from COVID-19 to bird flu, preventing pandemics requires protecting all
September 4, 2024 by Anna Fagre, Sadie Jane Ryan, The Conversation Pathogen transmission is bidirectional between animals and humans. Credit: Fagre et al. 2022/Ecology Letters, CC BY-NC-NDWhen the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans had been the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses...
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Yes, you should be worried about bird flu
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill by Gene Baur, opinion contributor – 08/05/24 4:30 PM ET Cambridge, MA – May 14: From left, Jon Arizti Sanz, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow with Liam Alec Stenson Ortiz, research associate working in the lab. The Broad institute, Sabeti Lab is...
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The CDC’s Test for Bird Flu Works, but It Has Issues
KFF Health News Arthur Allen; Amy Maxmen July 29, 2024 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn’t harmed the agency’s outbreak response. But it has ignited scrutiny of its go-it-alone approach in testing for emerging pathogens. The agency has quietly worked since April to resolve a...
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Worried about bird flu or salmonella? Your cooking thermometer could be life saver
August 5, 2024 by Dennis Thompson Folks worried about bird flu, salmonella and other foodborne illnesses have a simple solution at hand—simply use a cooking thermometer to make sure food is well-cooked. But only about one in four Americans (27%) use one either “often” or “all the time” to check whether meat, poultry or fish...
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Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
12 July 2024 Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind. By Smriti Mallapaty Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in 145 cattle herd in the United States. Credit: Matthew Ludak for The Washington Post via Getty As cases of...
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