Category: Avian Influenza
First Cows, Now Cats. Is Bird Flu Coming for Humans Next?
WSJ With so much H5N1 virus circulating across the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic. Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in […]
Feb 18, 2025
HPAI vaccine receives conditional approval from USDA
WATT Poultry Whether to implement a vaccination strategy against avian influenza in commercial poultry is a contentious issue in the U.S. An avian influenza killed vaccine for chickens manufactured by Zoetis received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) on February 14. A conditional license is valid for a finite […]
Feb 18, 2025
What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?
The Atlantic Most of Trump’s health picks are uninterested in using most of the tools that can limit the spread of infectious disease. resident Donald Trump might have campaigned on lowering the prices of groceries, but even as egg prices have become a minor national crisis, he has stayed quiet about the driving cause of […]
Feb 12, 2025
Avian flu explodes in Ohio
Farm Progress More than 10 million birds have been affected in the past 45 days. Ohio is the hot spot for avian flu right now in the U.S. It has lost more than 10 million birds to the H5N1 virus in the past 45 days on commercial operations, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease […]
Feb 11, 2025
HPAI dairy cattle research lasers in on transmission points
Brownfield Ag News A Michigan State University researcher says work continues to identify how highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission occurs in dairy cattle. Large animal veterinarian Dr. Zelmar Rodriguez in the College of Veterinary Medicine tells Brownfield, “The road that we know is playing a huge role is a cow-to-cow transmission, that plays within a herd, but also […]
Feb 11, 2025
How Worried Should You Be About Bird Flu? Here’s What to Know.
WSJ Risk for the general public is still low, but public-health experts advise caution. Sky-high egg prices. Millions of dead chickens. A new strain in cattle. Bird flu is making its way around the country, hitting farmers and consumers in their wallets. A second strain of H5N1 avian flu was recently detected among dairy cows in Nevada, […]
Feb 11, 2025
Bird Flu Suspected in Deaths of Ducks and Wild Birds at N.Y.C. Zoos
NY Times Three ducks died of the disease at the Queens Zoo, while three more ducks and nine wild birds that died at the Bronx Zoo were being tested for the virus, according to the parks’ operator. Three ducks at the Queens Zoo died because of bird flu, and as many as 12 more birds […]
Feb 11, 2025
New York poultry markets ordered to close temporarily as bird flu concerns spread
NBC News New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a temporary closure of live-poultry markets after bird flu was detected in the outer boroughs of New York City. The order, signed by Hochul on Friday, requires the markets to close down between Feb. 7 and Feb. 14 as facilities undergo a complete disinfection process. It calls for markets […]
Feb 11, 2025
House cats with bird flu could pose a risk to public health
ABC News More than 80 domestic cats, among many other types of mammals, have been confirmed to have had bird flu since 2022 — generally barn cats that lived on dairy farms, as well as feral cats and pets that spend time outdoors and likely caught it by hunting diseased rodents or wild birds. Now, a small but growing […]
Feb 11, 2025
China reports two new cases of H9N2
China Center for Health Protection Avian influenza A(H9N2):Hunan Province:
Feb 11, 2025