A Louisiana patient is critically ill with severe respiratory symptoms from H5N1 bird flu, marking the 61st U.S. human case this year. California has declared a state of emergency. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder explains the public healt
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While it’s too early to quantify the potential economic impact of a bird flu outbreak, many of these latest developments are concerning, particularly the transmission of the virus from one species to another, said Darin Detwiler, a food safety and policy expert at Northeastern University. “We...
Sweden's Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell haspartly blamed the country's high coronavirus death toll on mild flu outbreaksin recent winters. "When many people die of the flu in the winter, fewer die in heatwaves the following summer. In this case, it was Covid-19 that caused many to ...
New York has announced a temporary shutdown of all live poultry markets as the state attempts to contain the bird flu outbreak. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports. Feb 7 01:36 Some NY poultry markets closed for now New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has temporarily shut down poultry ...
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The World Health Organization officially declared the outbreak to be a pandemic on June 11, 2009 (see 2009 flu pandemic). The WHO's declaration of a pandemic level 6 was an indication of spread, not severity, the strain actually having a lower mortality rate than common flu outbreaks. ...
Overall effectiveness against flu hospitalization was still high, the CDC said. Feb 27 Do you need a measles booster shot? What to know as an outbreak spreads A measles outbreak in the U.S. has grown to over 120 cases. Here's what to know about measles vaccines and those...
Using Michigan as a case study, the CDC found a 22% decrease in the the number of non-flu vaccine doses administered to children overall. The study also found that less than half of all five-month-olds were up to date on their vaccines this May. ...