Bird-Flu Pandemic Threat Seen Waning
The 2024–25 seasonal influenza vaccine doesn’t prevent H5N1 bird flu but could play a pivotal role in preventing a pandemic, the CDC says.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued conditional approval for a bird flu vaccine for use in chickens. There have been at least 68 confirmed cases of bird flu among humans since 2024, according to the CDC. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline
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"Those hybrid strains can be especially dangerous to humans, and these are the strains that we worry couldspark a pandemic," Gounder said. Does bird flu affect eggs? Bird flu continues to affect theavailability and price of eggsas the disease hits farms and wipes out flocks. ...
farmworkers, livestock veterinarians are at risk of bird flu infections. The study results could help protect them. And having fewer infections would lessen the chance of the H5N1 bird flu virus evolving within a person to spread efficiently between people — the gateway to a bird flu pandemic...
The latest U.S. outbreak started in 2022. As of December 2024, it had affected nearly 11,000 wild birds and 125 million poultry. All 50 states had poultry outbreaks. In March 2024, the virus was detected for the first time in dairy cows. According to the CDC, H5N1 bird flu has infec...
Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus receptors but no human-like ones, a study has found, meaning there’s no reason for the virus to evolve to become better at infecting people
least one U.S. pig. Pigs, which contain receptors for both avian and human influenzas, can get simultaneously infected with both, exchange genes and create a novel strain that can more easily infect humans. This is what likely happened with the1918 flu pandemicand again withswine flu in ...
Bird flu in humans Across the US, the CDC has recordeda total of 61 human casesof bird flu across 16 states so far – with more than half of those cases, 34, being in California. "It's a pandemic already in birds, and what we're trying to do is prevent it becoming a pandemic ...