Bird Flu Sweeps Indonesia, India, TibetIRWAN FIRDAUS
Also read:Bird flu detected in Kuttanad; situation under control, says Kerala This is the second human infection of H9N2 bird flu from India, with the first in 2019, the agency said. While the H9N2 virus typically tends to cause mild illness, the United Nations agency said that...
By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it continues to spread. The strain was discovered at a commercial duck farm in Califor...
H5N1 has infected about 860 individuals with about a 50%-60% death rate. Human cases of highly pathogenic bird flu have been largely confined to Southeast Asia (India, Bangladesh) and Africa
By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter HealthDay MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Federal health officials have confirmed unsettling new details about the first United States case of severe bird flu, reported recently in a hospitalized patient in Louisiana. ...
By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues to grow in the Unite...
Avian influenza among poultry in India spread to new districts as animal control officials struggled to contain the outbreak. Reports in the last 24 hours suggested bird flu spread to the Birbhum and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal as culling in several districts continued, the Press Trust of...
By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 2025 -- With egg prices soaring due to a severebird fluoutbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $1 billion plan to contain the disease and help poultry farmers recover. ...
The poultry industry association of India disclosed that because of the bird flu epidemic, the sales of chicken in India has dropped by 70-80%, the price of chicken has dropped by 50%, and the price of eggs has also dropped by 15-20%....
Calling both of these problems “bird flu” has been a monumental mistake. And instead of taking the blame for this communication error, officials blame the public (and the media) for getting it wrong.The second error is to talk to poultry consumers about the tiny but non-zero human risk ...