There have been very few cases of human-to-human transmission during bird flu outbreaks. The rare instances were among people with very close contact, such as a mother who caught the virus while caring for her sick infant. No person-to-person spread has been reported in the 2024 outbreak....
April 24, 2024 / 4:29 PM EDT / CBS News A multi-state outbreak of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is leading to a jump in the price of eggs around the U.S. — an unhappy reminder for consumers that a range of unforeseen developments can trigger inflation. ...
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While it’s too early to quantify the potential economic impact of a bird flu outbreak, many of these latest developments are concerning, particularly the transmission of the virus from one species to another, said Darin Detwiler, a food safety and policy expert at Northeastern University. “We...
JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security said Tuesday it has detected infections of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, or bird flu, in poultry in northern Israel, the first of its kind in the country this year. ...
In January 2016, an outbreak of H7N8 was reported in turkeys in Indiana; eventually, nine to 10 farms became infected, and thousands of turkeys were killed and the outbreak halted. There were no reports of human infection. H5N8 bird flu has been found in birds since the 1980s and in th...
The current outbreak, which began in January 2022, has expanded beyond poultry to include dairy cattle. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has documented 67 human bird flu cases in the United States since April 2024. While health officials maintain that the general public’s risk rema...
JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday reported an outbreak of bird flu in a coop housing 29,300 chickens in the village of Hibat Tzion in central Israel. To curb the spread of the disease, all chicken coops within a 10-km radius of the affected...
Bird flu has been detected again at a goose farm in Békés County, in southeast Hungary, and in birds in captivity in Komárom-Esztergom County in the north of the country, the food safety authority Nébih said. The H5N1 version of bird flu was diagnosed at a farm keeping 7,400 geese ...
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