What is the H5N1 bird flu? Will it cause the next big pandemic? If so, how bad would that pandemic be? Wait, What Even Is Flu? Flu is a disease caused by a family of related influenza viruses. Pandemic flu is always caused by the influenza A virus. Influenza A has two surface antigen proteins,…

Twenty exotic cats, including a Bengal tiger, four cougars, a lynx and four bobcats, have died after contracting bird flu at an animal sanctuary in Shelton, Washington. The feline deaths come as bird flu, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, has spread rapidly through poultry flocks and dairy herds…

The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people can protect their pets. Related video above: Concerns mount over bird flu, including a voluntary pet food recall Advertisement Bird flu has been spreading for years in…

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The accelerating spread of bird flu through US poultry flocks is pushing the price of eggs to highs rivaling or exceeding the cost in December 2022 at the height of the post-pandemic inflation scare. The average cost of a dozen Grade A large eggs was $3.65 in November, up from $3.37 in October, the…

Genetic sequencing of the virus that infected a Louisiana patient showed it is a version that is circulating in wild birds, not U.S. cattle.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Dec. 18, 2024 Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases The United States has confirmed its first known severe human infection of H5N1…

Bad case Bird flu jumps from birds to human in Louisiana; patient hospitalized This is the first human case of bird flu in Louisiana. Beth Mole – Dec 13, 2024 5:28 PM | 124 Three colorized H5N1 virus particles (rod-shaped; orange) imaged by an electron microscope. With a couple genetic shifts in…

The bird flu outbreak has affected more than 650 dairy herds. Dozens of people have been infected from contact with infected cattle and poultry. Charlie Neibergall/AP Scientists believe it was roughly a year ago that an influenza virus sickening and killing birds happened upon a new and surprisingly…

In their typical Friday news dump, the CDC confirmed that H5N1 bird flu has infected a child in California. It’s the first. It won’t be the last. This news comes after the virus hospitalized a healthy teenager in Canada. Even as we see growing evidence of respiratory spread among humans, health…

US health officials reported Saturday the first known case of a person infected with the new mpox strain in the country. The person acquired mpox while traveling to east Africa and was treated for a mild illness in San Mateo, California, according to health officials. The person is isolating at home…

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A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, in what is believed to be Canada’s first human case of bird flu. “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underlying conditions,” said the provincial health officer Bonnie Henry in a news conference on Tuesday.…

The newly elected premier of New Brunswick has called on Canada’s federal government to aid in a “full, open scientific investigation” into the mysterious brain illness that has plagued the province for years, in a move that those suffering from the condition hope could finally bring answers. “We…

Lisa Schnirring October 28, 2024 Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) NIAID/Flickr cc In experiments designed to learn more about the threat from the H5N1 avian flu virus spreading from cows to people, researchers found that an isolate from a sick dairy worker may be capable of replicating in human airway…

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. It's the first time the virus has been detected in swine in the United States. Test results are pending for two other pigs found on the farm in Crook County, Oregon, the USDA said, while two…

It's been five years since rangers on England's Farne Islands could conduct a survey of puffins living there — and they were delighted to find good news in the 2024 results. The population, which had been threatened by several factors including avian influenza (bird flu), has now been declared…

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Journal of General Virology Volume 105, Issue 6 Research Article Open Access *Correspondence: Rik L. de Swart, [email protected] Published: 26 June 2024 https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.002007 chrome_reader_mode Side by side view Access full text Article Share Abstract Highly pathogenic avian influenza…

A man looks at eggs displayed at a supermarket in Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 2022. Jim Vondruska/Reuters New York CNN — Supermarket prices are no longer skyrocketing – except, of course, if you’re buying eggs. Egg prices spiked by 28.1% in August from 12 months ago, easily the biggest increase out…

After three more herds in California’s Central valley tested positive for bird flu, questions have been raised about the whether true extent of the outbreak in the US is much wider than recognized, given inadequate or nonexistent biosecurity and a persistent lack of testing. The new cases, revealed…

The first case of a person to contract bird flu after no known contact with animals is raising questions about the possibility of human-to-human transmission and highlighting the complicated relationship between states and federal agencies in outbreak response. An extensive investigation into the…

Microbes that cause disease in humans can travel thousands of miles on high-level winds, scientists have revealed for the first time. The winds studied carried a surprising diversity of bacteria and fungi, including known pathogens and, some with genes for resistance to multiple antibiotics. Some of…

A person in Missouri with no known animal contact has tested positive for H5 bird flu, the state’s department of health and senior services said Friday. It’s the first time a patient in the US outbreak has had no known exposure to sick animals. And it is the first time someone has been hospitalized…

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A case of Eastern equine encephalitis has been confirmed in a horse in Northwood, health officials said Tuesday. EEE is a rare mosquito-borne virus. A man in Hampstead died last month after he was infected with the virus. Advertisement Several New Hampshire communities have…

KENSINGTON, N.H. - A New Hampshire man is fighting for his life because of a mosquito bite. Fifty-four-year-old Joe Casey of Kensington has tested positive for three mosquito-borne viruses, including eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile Virus. "He's my brother. It's very difficult,…

Two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus, according to health officials. A third person in Wisconsin has been hospitalized because of the mosquito-borne illness, the Wisconsin department of health services said Thursday in a release. That…

The US is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with Covid, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues spreading on American farms and raising alarms that it could mutate to become a pandemic, public health experts argue in the New England Journal of Medicine. “We’re…

A Palestinian baby in Gaza has been partly paralysed from polio in the first case there for 25 years, amid preparations for a difficult and dangerous vaccination campaign in the midst of war. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, confirmed that the affected…

"Critical risk" Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people Eastern Equine Encephalitis is very rare in the US, but when it strikes, it's bad. Beth Mole – Aug 22, 2024 1:09 pm | 182 A mosquito collected to test for mosquito-borne diseases. Credit: Getty | Jon Cherry…

Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the country from Africa. The department of disease control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old had confirmed he was infected with the mpox Clade 1b variant. “Thailand’s Department…

Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after the UN chief, António Guterres, called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundred

Well, it's back. Barely a day after the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern, its strongest warning, mpox has turned up in Europe and elsewhere. Is thi

Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Following over a month of warnings, Gaza recorded it

Sweden confirmed its first case of the more contagious variant of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, marking the first time it has been found outside Africa. The person was in

The US announced its fourth human case of bird flu, in a Colorado dairy worker, on Wednesday, as officials work to expand the availability of potential vaccines and commercial tests and open up financ

Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and

There is not enough testing for bird flu among people and animals in the US, says Dr Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – but he is wary o

June 7 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease

The outbreak of avian flu in US cattle herds was reported to have reached Minnesota on Thursday when the state’s board of animal health said a farmer had reported more than 40 cows with signs of fever