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In October last year, mink started dying at a farm in Spain. Testing revealed they had H5N1 avian flu. Worst bird flu outbreak in UK history How worried should we be about bird flu in mammals? The spread at the mink farm set alarm bells ringing. In most cases where mammal...
Worst bird flu outbreak in UK history She added that while bird flu was detected in a "small number of mammals in the UK" there were no "signals of increased risk to the general public". Professor Brown affirmed that bird flu was "a long way" from looking like COVID, spreading from h...
California has been hit especially hard in recent months, forcing the state to declare a state of emergency to try to respond to the bird flu outbreak. This winter's surge of bird flu is from a different virus than the uptick of seasonal flu infections that also drives humans to emergency...
February 12, 2025 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating a bird flu outbreak at an Arkansas broiler operation in Clay County as well as in some backyard flocks across the state. According to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, close to230,000 birdshave been exposed to...
California has been hit especially hard in recent months, forcing the state to declare a state of emergency to try to respond to the bird flu outbreak. This winter's surge of bird flu is from a different virus than the uptick of seasonal flu infections that also drives humans to emergency...
this culling has effectively limited the spread of bird flu in outbreak situations but naturally has negative effects on the poultry and egg industry. UnlikeEbola, which has a narrow geographic range (endemic in Africa), the bird flu continues to exist in significant areas of the world and can...
This is the first bird flu outbreak in the UK since June 2017. Pre-Christmas Consumer Concerns The source of the outbreak is being investigated and bird keepers are being asked to maintain good biosecurity, watch for any signs of bird flu, and report suspected disease straight away. PHE is ...
There have been numerous developments this week concerning avian flu that have raised concerns among experts.
Bird flu found in nine otters and foxes since 2021 Bird flu has jumped to mammals - so how worried should humans be? Since the outbreak started there have been five cases of H5N1 in humans worldwide, including one in the UK and one death in China. ...