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H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported 6 more H5N1 avian flu ...
No new instances of H7N9 in commercial poultry have been confirmed in the United States since the single incident in March.
A recent study has confirmed that the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) in U.S. dairy cattle began with just one wild bird infection. This event, traced back to Texas in 2023, led to undetected ...
A study published in Science investigates the emergence, transmission, and evolutionary dynamics of HPAI H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattle, utilizing genomic and epidemiological data to elucidate interspecies ...
From egg prices to pet food recalls – and now, confirmation that another strain of bird flu has infected a large commercial ...
As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, ...
The spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in U.S. dairy cattle can be traced to a single spillover event from a wild bird, researchers ...
The epidemiological characteristics of the current H5N1 outbreak closely resemble those of the 2003 H7N7 outbreak, underscoring the importance of monitoring similar symptomatology and transmission ...
Malawi on April 17 declared an mpox outbreak after detecting its first three confirmed cases, the World Health Organization ...
Bird flu has long been a concern for scientists, but recent developments have raised alarms about its potential to cause a global pandemic. The discovery in 2024 that the H5N1 virus had jumped from ...
H5N1 bird flu has infected over 1,009 cattle across 17 U.S. states, affected poultry in New York and New Mexico, and caused one human death in Louisiana.