Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research facility in Iowa where 43 scientists work with pigs, cows and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently ...
The mandatory testing comes as the total number of infected herds in California has risen to 17. Nationally, officials have ...
The F.D.A. authorized AstraZeneca’s treatment to be given outside a health care setting, although it will still need a ...
The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.
FORECAST COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES. WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS. THE FIRST CASE OF BIRD FLU IN MISSOURI. THE STATE’S HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS YOUR RISK OF GETTING IT IS LOW. THE PATIENT WAS ...
A person in Missouri is the United States' first case of H5 avian influenza without a known exposure to a sick animal, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
H5N1 is one of the most well-known strains of bird flu, having first been detected ... the country’s preparedness to respond to an outbreak. Previous exercises have challenged the capacity ...
The outbreak, which was first reported in March, marks the first time that the specific bird flu virus, HPAI A (H5N1), was found in cows. In April, a human case was confirmed in the first instance ...
The number of human cases of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. this year has risen to 14, with the latest one marking the first ...