WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday confirmed two of the four presumptive positive bird flu cases among poultry farm workers in Washington state. The agency also ruled out bird flu infections among healthcare workers who tended to a person who ...
The case was first confirmed by health officials Friday, adding to the total of 61 reported human cases of H5 bird flu reported in the United States. Another severe case of H5N1 has been reported in a teen in British Columbia. A release from the Louisiana Department of Health Wednesday added...
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Cumulative data on cases of the currently circulating H5N1 flu shows that outbreaks have been ongoing in the United States since at least 2022 (when data started being collected on the disease in wild birds, poultry and humans; cumulative data started being collected among cattle only in March,...
Michigan and Colorado have taken aggressive approaches to containing bird flu in cattle, though experts there still think cases are being missed. advertisement Phil Durst, an educator with Michigan State University who has spoken with farmers whose herds contracted the virus, said Michigan’s 27 posi...
That teenager is critically ill, so this is not a mild case of bird flu like we've seen with other bird flu cases. We've seen mutations in that particular case that would make the virus more easily transmitted from person to person. ...
Four new human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, infection in the state of Colorado have been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing the total cases to nine since 2022. ...
There have been numerous developments this week concerning avian flu that have raised concerns among experts.
The production of eggs in the United States dropped by 4% in November, according to the USDA, as prices of eggs continue to rise alongside bird flu cases.