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A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History
But if there is a bird flu ... as a flu virus of avian origin that passed through a pig in eastern Kansas. From there it ...
MIT Technology Review3h
The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising
Human cases in the US are on the rise and the virus is turning up in cows and dairy products. Luckily, we have some vaccines ...
Three mysterious bird flu cases worry experts that another pandemic is looming
In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, multiple reassortment events in pigs and birds led to the novel H1N1 virus strain, which led ...
The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary
As a virus scientist in South Africa, I’ve been watching with dread as H5N1 bird flu spreads among animals in the United ...
WHO Wants Bird Flu Surveillance Stepped Up
The World Health Organization on Thursday urged countries to step up surveillance for bird flu after the first case was detected in a child in the United States.
The First Child Case of Bird Flu Has Been Confirmed—But Do You Really Need to Worry?
The symptoms of bird flu in humans are similar to symptoms caused by other flu viruses, Dr. Schaffner says. They include ...
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How a turkey farmer dealt with an avian flu outbreak on Thanksgiving
The bird flu virus continues to spread around the world, including in mammals like cows. Scientists are worried it could ...
Bird flu: Why ‘unusual changes’ in a human case in Canada are raising concerns
With 55 human cases in the US and avian influenza impacting bird populations across the globe, here’s a look at why ...
Experts say bird flu is more widespread than we think: ‘We are in a soup of virus’
Scientists are warning about the continued transmission of dangerous H5N1 bird flu, saying that the virus is more widespread ...
Bird flu: what to know as worries about a pandemic start
So far there’s been only one reported human case of bird flu in Texas this year in April and 46 total in the U.S., according ...
Bird flu decimated tern colony in northwest Washington
More than half a colony of Caspian terns on a small island near Port Townsend died last year amid an outbreak of bird flu, ...
USA Today29d
H5N1 bird flu detected in a pig for the first time, raising concerns
a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital virologist who studies flu in animals and birds for the World Health Organization. The finding of the virus at a small farm makes the pig infection less ...