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Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the US. Here's what you need to know
Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the U.S. Here's what you need to know about the current situation.
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After recent death in Louisiana, are there concerns that bird flu could turn into a pandemic?
Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...
How to test for and control bird flu before it’s too late
It takes several hours for the results of a polymerase chain reaction test, which “detects genetic material from a pathogen ...
How do you get the bird flu? What medical experts want you to know right now
Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the ...
EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs
Europe’s vast pig herds threaten to become a “dangerous virus laboratory” should they be infected by the growing ...
Antibody therapy explored to combat bird flu
While the risk of contracting and dying from the H5N1 avian flu remains low for humans, researchers continue to hunt for ...
Top virologists sound the alarm on bird flu and plead with world leaders to prepare for another pandemic
Leading virologists from over 40 countries are sounding the alarm over the increasing threat of H5N1 avian flu—which can ...
Bird flu forced 30M chickens to be culled across nine states so far this year
So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...
Bird flu isn't as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing
Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...