LaPook says the USDA and CDC are working to incentivize more testing among farmers. "It turns out that poultry farmers are reimbursed for financial loss related to bird flu. There's an insurance policy. That's not true with cattle ranchers," LaPook said. "In addition to that, there are ...
The discovery of traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurized cow milk in the United States sparked questions over whether the disease could spread to humans, but experts say there is little risk from food contamination.
Vaccines at hand for humans against bird fluChina is able to mass-produce bird flu vaccines for people, a top Chinese scientist said on Sunday. Zhong Nanshan, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, made the remark at ...
The first is that we do everything right. We could continue to improve the timely surveillance of animals and raw milk — batches of which have been recalled forpotential bird flu risk— to better identify infected herds and understand the true magnitude and dynamics of infection. This step wi...
根据空前“The symptoms in humans are similar to those of other types of flu: a temperature, cough, headache, chills, aching muscles and a runny or blocked nose and sneezing.(人类的感染症状与其他类型流感的症状相似:发烧、咳嗽、头痛、发冷、肌肉酸痛、流鼻涕或鼻塞以及打喷嚏。)”讲人类感染此病毒后...
Preventing bird flu outbreak in humans could cost millions, WHO official says
Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a viral infection primarily affecting birds, commonly originating from wild bird populations such as waterfowl and shorebirds. It is caused by influenza A viruses, which can infect domestic poultry and other bird species. While most strains of bird flu do not po...
Bird flu: What threat to humans? There are lots of different types of bird flu and most are harmless to people. Some can potentially spread from birds to people if there is prolonged and close contact. How do people get it? The biggest risk comes from prolonged and close contact with inf...
Bird flu has jumped to mammals - so how worried should humans be? Since the outbreak started there have been five cases of H5N1 in humans worldwide, including one in the UK and one death in China. In the last 20 years, there have been 868 cases and 457 deaths, according to the WHO...
Bird flu has been making headlines over the past month, resulting in millions of bird deaths, driving up poultry and egg prices, and raising public concern over potential human infections. According to the experts, however, bird flu is unlikely to become the next human pandemic. In its current...