Second Strain of Bird Flu Found in US Dairy Cows: What It Means for Infection Prevention and Control Tori Whitacre Martonicz February 8th 2025 Article A new H5N1 strain was found in Nevada dairy cows, challenging earlier transmission theories. This raises concerns about animal vulnerability, human...
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The CDC conducted a genetic analysis of an H5N1 bird flu sample from a person in Louisiana that shows the disease could be more transmittable to humans. The person became infected with the “D1.1 genotype virus,” which closely resembles the virus “detected in wild birds and poultry in the...
Current guidelines call for annual flu vaccinations for everyone 6 months of age and older. How effective the vaccines are each year depends on how well they match the circulating virus, the CDC said. Preliminary estimates show last season people who were vaccinated against the flu were 40%-70...
Why Are the Guidelines Changing? COVID-19 is not causing as many hospitalizations and deaths as it did in the first years of the pandemic. The change is an effort to streamline recommendations so they are similar to longstanding recommendations for flu and other respiratory viruses. Many people...
It's not a simple checklist. The CDC states each school "should be guided by what is feasible, practical, acceptable, and tailored to the needs of each community." After the CDC released the guidelines, some of their recommendations were paraphrased in memes that went viral on social media...
The guidelines don't address how schools should pay for the recommended measures, but officials on the call said enactment of the Biden administration's "American Rescue Plan," which allocates funding to schools, is essential. A Pathway to Reopening ...
guidelines to know what tests to run, to know what antibiotic will work on which infection, and how to avoid worsening antibiotic resistance," said David C. Harvey, head of the National Coalition of STD Directors, in a statement to CBS News.Multiple federal health officials said that agency ...
With some school districts just weeks away from the start of the academic year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released long-awaited guidelines Thursday for reopening with a heavy emphasis on getting students back into the classroom.
By comparison, nearly half of adults and kids in the US have gotten a flu vaccine this season. The National Immunization Survey shows that most Americans still consider Covid-19 vaccines to be safe and important, but people’s confidence in the vaccine has fallen from 83.9% in January 2022...