Bird flu outbreak: Can America protect farmworkers and prevent a pandemic?
The killings of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont last week, a state’s witness in California, and a pair of senior citizens in ...
To detect contagious bird flu, can genomic surveillance shift to sewers?
Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already ...
Can the U.S. head off a potential bird flu pandemic? UW-Madison researchers weigh in
As bird flu continues to threaten animals and public health, the U.S. government has stepped up its response. Experts says it ...
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Will bird flu spark a human pandemic? Scientists say the risk is rising
The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...
First Reported H5N9 Bird Flu Outbreak In US As H5N1 Keeps Spreading
While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...
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Bird flu threat ‘increasing’ as EFSA issues pandemic warning
The potential for a bird flu pandemic is real, warns EFSA as it encourages industry to step up safety protocols and ...
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Deadly H5N1 bird flu becomes an 'existential threat' to biodiversity worldwide
The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...
What we can VERIFY about bird flu amid current outbreak
Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.
As bird flu becomes a growing threat, Moderna is awarded $590M to develop mRNA pandemic influenza vaccines
No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...
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How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...
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As bird flu becomes a growing threat, Moderna is awarded $590M to develop mRNA pandemic influenza vaccines
But that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even probable. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which the CDC is part, believes the current bird ...
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Antibody treatment helps prevent severe bird flu in monkeys: Study
The antibodies target a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and ...