What is bird flu? According to Mayo Clinic, it is an infectious viral disease that primarily affects birds and mammals. Specifically, the “H5N1” strain is particularly severe within avian species, ...
Understaffing, workers say, has increased the potential for delays or mistakes, with potential consequences for the state's ...
Efforts to contain the virus are falling short. A teenager in Canada is in critical condition after an unexplained infection.
Why now: With reservoirs of virus persisting in dairy cattle, poultry and wild birds, there are ample opportunities for ...
California state officials have suspended a company’s sales of raw milk to retailers amid ongoing concerns about bird flu.
H5 bird flu, a type of avian influenza, has infected dozens of people in the U.S., and spread to seven states and Canada this ...
The warning came five days after the CDC confirmed that a child had tested positive for bird flu in California.
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 ...
We might be fine. Viruses don’t always manage to adapt to new species, despite all the opportunities. But if there is a bird ...
The outbreak hit California dairy farms in the late summer, and shortly thereafter, some dairy workers handling the raw milk ...
Another batch of raw milk has tested positive for bird flu following an outbreak in California of the virus among dairy cows, ...
The CDPH noted that no illnesses connected to the raw milk have been reported, but "due to the ongoing spread of bird flu in ...