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David Quammen, who warned of a global pandemic sparked by a coronavirus years before it emerged, has said that bird flu poses ...
Science writer David Quammen - who correctly predicted Covid-19 - says one particular virus, which is already present in the ...
Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...
One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have been at least 70 cases since then.
H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...
So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen ... the virus in China that became the COVID pandemic. Khan told us bird flu is just as concerning. He showed us how fast the virus has spread ...
The National Academy of Sciences has canceled a workshop on preventing human bird flu infections after being told to stop ...
David Quammen, who previously pinpointed a wet market - potentially in China - as the likely source of a future coronavirus ...
At least 4,180 Big Apple birds intended to be sold were found ... from the bird flu to date. The highly contagious virus can also spread to humans, and has infected 70 people in the US, according ...
A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University ...
If you really want to feed wild birds, you need to have the feeder in an area that your cat or dog is not able to access.