The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States. One of the studies would reveal whether veterinarians who treat cattle have been unknowingly infected by the bird flu virus. Another report documents case...
The CDC reported the first human case of H5 bird flu in Missouri in a patient with no known exposure to sick animals. Previous cases in the US were linked to workers in Colorado euthanizing infected birds, with mild symptoms including conjunctivitis. The CDC stated that the ...
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...
though an investigation into the source of the infection in the state is ongoing. This is also the first case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. that has been linked to exposure to a backyard flock, a news release noted.
Testing of samples taken from a child in California thought to have contracted H5N1 bird flu after drinking raw milk turned up no evidence of influenza viruses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. A test run on a sample from the child — who went to a Marin County...
The article highlights the detection of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle in the U.S. and the confirmed human infection in a farm worker in Texas, U.S. underscoring the need for clinicians to consider H5N1 bird flu in individuals with respiratory symptoms who have had contact with birds or ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the U.S. stockpile of bird flu vaccines is still well matched to the virus after discovering recent mutations.
Bird flu. Photo: Canva People hospitalized for flu should be tested forbird fluwithin 24 hours, the U.S.Centers for Disease Controland Prevention said on Thursday, in an expansion of the agency’s efforts to tackle ongoing infections in humans. ...
Public health officials have also confirmed an increasing number of bird flu infections in domestic cats linked to raw pet food or raw milk exposure.Who's most at risk?The CDC continues to stress that the risk of bird flu is low for the general public. ...
California accounts for the largest share of human bird flu cases in the country, with 37 confirmed infections. Washington has recorded 11 cases, and Colorado 10, CDC data show. Across the United States,more than 900 dairy herds in 16 stateshave been infected since...