The United States has reported its first human death fromH5N1 bird flu, marking a somber moment in the ongoing outbreak of the virus. The Louisiana Department of Health announced in astatementon Monday that a patient over the age of 65, who had under...
From Washington Post He notes that the salmonella bacteria can survive for long periods of time, accumulating on or under a bird feeder. From Washington Post Some people also like to crumple it up and put it in a bird feeder with seeds. From Washington Post Counting the visitors to the bir...
Millions of domestic fowl and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds around the world have died over the past four years, as the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more commonly known as bird flu,continues to grip the globe. As ...
Bird Flu Shows Foul Side of U.S.-Style FarmsThe Washington Post last week posted a series of seven maps and charts it says will "explain the...Rance, Laura
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Some bird flu experts are equally alarmed by China's veterinary use of the human antiviral drug amantadine, as reported in June 18, 2005 issue of the periodical "Washington Post." According to the paper, drug makers and other sources in China admitted that the drug has been sold cheaply to...
Michael Greger, MD describes the cesspool-like environments in which chickens are raised inBird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching: “Tens of thousands of chickens [are] crammed into a filthy, football field-sized shed, left to lie beak-to-beak in their own waste. The air is choked with...
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 ...
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and finance chief Ned Segal have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning, sources said. Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal policy, trust, and safety was also fired, the ...
And, also like the 1918 variety, H5N1 has the ability to kill directly. Most ordinary flu viruses destroy the cells that line the upper respiratory tract, the body‘s first line of defense against airborne germs; the patient usually dies of bacterial pneumonia. That‘s why the elderly and ...