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
People in multiple US states tested positive for bird flu this year, raising concerns about the pandemic potential of the virus
Bird Flu FAQs Is a bird flu pandemic possible? While it’s possible for bird flu to cause a pandemic (a dangerous, worldwide outbreak of illness), it’s unlikely. It can only happen if the virus mutates, or changes so that it’s easier for people to give it to each other and not...
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.
As for where the next pandemic may emerge, “a lot of the betting money would be on flu”, Mills says – with the most likely route being animal-to-human transmission. Flu is most likely because it affects so many species, where strains undergo genetic recombination to prod...
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“Even if there’s only a 5% chance of a bird flu pandemic happening, we’re talking about a pandemic that probably looks like 2020 or worse,” said Tom Peacock, a bird flu researcher at the Pirbright Institute in the United Kingdom, referring to covid. “The U.S. knows the risk bu...
Related articleIs bird flu the next pandemic? What to know after the first H5N1 death in the US Scientists call bird flu viruses high- or low- pathogenic depending on how sick they make birds. These designations have little to do with how severe or mild these infections might be in humans...
Bird flu swept through the duck houses like wildfire. On February 4, the first day of the outbreak, 800 ducks died. Within two days, 5,000 had died. On February 7 and 9, the entire flock was depopulated to cont
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