Australia not prepared to handle threat of new pandemic, experts warn
Five years on from the beginning of the Covid pandemic, Australia is no better prepared to respond to the threat of another ...
What is bird flu? Here's everything you need to know about the virus affecting chickens and dairy cattle
The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry ...
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H5N1 bird flu moves closer to Australia, New Zealand
Australia has failed to undertake any testing of wildlife for the high pathogenicity avian influenza H5N1 virus on its Heard and McDonald Island territories this summer, despite French researchers ...
H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows
Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk ...
Inside Story7d
Vaccination nations
The work on mRNA vaccines is especially important for bird flu. Most flu vaccines are currently made using a decades-old ...
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Bird Flu Vaccine Stocks: 8 Companies Developing H5N1 Vaccines
Sanofi's H5N1 vaccine became the first to be approved ... CSL Seqirus has production facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. CSL Seqirus’ Audenz is among the three ...
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Antibodies Against H5N1 More Likely in Adults with History of Flu Infections
The bird flu (avian H5N1 influenza) has been circulating widely in cattle and other mammals. Many researchers note that there is a risk of a human pandemic. Some studies suggest that older humans ...
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Older adults might be more resistant to bird flu infections than children
To determine how individuals with different birth years respond to H5N1 vaccinations, researchers obtained blood samples from a separate group of individuals born between 1918 and 2003 before and ...