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A seagull has tested positive for bird flu in Cornwall. Cornwall Council said it received the confirmation of the case after ...
A bird hospital in Cornwall has been temporarily closed due to the threat of avian flu. Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital Cornwall said the decision has been made to "protect current patients".
Another strain of bird flu (H5N1) has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Cornwall, with a mass cull of the birds ordered by the government. All birds at the St Ives premises will now be humanely ...
Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...
So far, 70 human cases have been confirmed, according to the CDC. Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time ...
Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...
Scientists have been keeping an eye on bird flu ever since it was first discovered nearly 30 years ago. Experts have long recognized that the H5N1 virus that causes the disease has pandemic ...
The department cited Moderna’s use of the messenger RNA technology, which it said “remains under-tested,” for the ...