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Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...
Bird flu devastated this duck farm — now it’s making a comeback - Doug Corwin worries he won't be able to weather another ...
As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before they ignite a human pandemic. Now, a team of scientists has developed a ...
As of May 6, according to the CDC, no known person-to-person spread of bird flu has occurred. But 70 cases, including one death, have been confirmed in the U.S. Of those cases, exposure was mostly ...
The latest bird flu outbreak, which has persisted in the U.S. since 2021, involves over 168 million poultry. At the same time, the majority of new detections are in small backyard flocks and live ...
Even though the 2024-2025 migratory bird season is winding down, concerns about highly pathogenic avian influenza — commonly known as bird flu — remain. The public is paying attention. Consumers are ...
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This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every continent except for Australia.
On today’s episode, we’re talking about bird flu, but in a pretty Decoder way. Lauren Leffer, who recently wrote a piece for The Verge about bird flu and how it’s becoming a forever war ...
Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission ...
The H7N9 strain of bird flu was detected on a poultry farm in Mississippi. The infection of 47,654 commercial chickens was confirmed on March 13 by the World Organization for Animal Health.