Bird flu has become one of the "biggest immediate conservation threats faced by multiple seabirds", across the UK and continental Europe, the report warned. Climate change, mortality linked to fishing, the effects of offshore wind developments and a reduction in the availability of food ar...
Bird flu found in UK poultry confirmed as H5N1 virus, officials saysTHOMAS WAGNER
It comes as egg farmers in the UK have been battling the biggest avian flu outbreak on record, leading to fears of shortages. Under changes being looked at by ministers, there could be a relaxation of how free-range is defined, meaning hens kept in barns for long periods could meet t...
H5N1 influenza - commonly known asbird flu- hascropped up in mammals around the world, from grizzly bears to dolphins and domestic cats. Last week it was confirmedbird flu has spilled to mammals in the UK,with otters and foxes testing positive for the virus. WHO director-general Dr Tedros...
"Amid growing concern, the Government's UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has updated its avian influenza guidance. It says, 'The symptoms of avian influenza in humans vary considerably depending on the strain or subtype of the virus involved. Most infections take the form of a flu-like illn...
This is an update to the story I published earlier this month (June 2024) looking into the former director of the CDC during the Trump presidency, Dr. Robert Redfield, and why he has been predicting a deadly Bird Flu pandemic for 3 years now. As I me...
This first report of a cow-to-human spread of “bird flu” has created widespread media coverage and fear of an impending epidemic. While the US public health authorities have reassured the public that the safety risk to cattle, meat, and pasteurized milk is very low, concerns about ...
Those people could become unwitting incubators for deadly new flu strains and end up passing them on to the people around them. “That is exactly how we think pandemics start,” says Thomas Peacock, a virologist at the Pirbright Institute in Woking, UK. Related Story What’s next for bird...
“If that virus sustains in dairy cattle, they will have a problem in their poultry forever,” says Thomas Peacock, a virologist at the Pirbright Institute in Woking, UK. Worse, this form of bird flu that is now spreading among cattle could find its way back into migrating birds. It ...
Yet bird flu still short of rabies, which kills everything, unless treated almost instantly. Hard to see how they can juice a panic with rabies, though. Because you have to be bit by something already rabid. Even with stalwart silly soldiers like Fing-Ding and Kuchipudi, it going to be...