Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts. Many of them have been monitoring the new subtype of H5N1 avian flu in migratory birds since 2020. But the spread of the … Read more
Scientists have issued a warning after an outbreak of bird flu in cows that has now spread from animals to humans. Earlier this year, the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed they had discovered the first case of someone catching bird flu from a cow. The incident, which was recorded in April … Read more
NEW YORK — A new study that recreated commercial pasteurization in a government lab provides reassurance that heat treatment kills bird flu virus in cow’s milk, U.S. officials said Friday. When the bird flu known as H5N1 was first detected in U.S. dairy cows earlier this year, there were no studies of whether heat treatment … Read more
(NewsNation) — The latest front in the culture wars in America now centers on milk. Raw milk has emerged as the new symbol for conservative and right-wing politics, challenging established national public health directives that advocate pasteurized milk as the only safe option. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug … Read more
Finland plans to offer preemptive bird flu vaccination as soon as next week to some workers with exposure to animals, health authorities said on Tuesday, making it the first country in the world to do so. The Nordic country has bought vaccines for 10,000 people, each consisting of two injections, as part of a joint EU procurement of up to … Read more
(NewsNation) — The 2-year old outbreak of bird flu has claimed lots of wild birds, especially migratory waterfowl like geese and mallard ducks. It’s also devastated domestic poultry — the chickens that end up on your dinner table. But researchers say, so far, the risk to the birds that show up at your backyard feeder has … Read more
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield suggested that a bird flu pandemic among humans is inevitable ― and would be extremely lethal. (Watch the video below.) Redfield, who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021 after being appointed by the Trump administration, gave an alarming interview to NewsNation on Friday after … Read more
(NewsNation) — Is a bird flu pandemic imminent? Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield seems to think so, he says it’s just a matter of when that will be. In the last two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. However, … Read more
The former chief of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a chilling forecast warning that bird flu could be the source of the next global pandemic, potentially claiming the lives of half of those it infects. Dr Robert Redfield, who led the CDC from 2018 to 2021, has sounded the alarm over … Read more
Bird flu virus particles were able to survive milk pasteurization, a new study shows, fueling fears of an outbreak in humans. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health found that a “small but detectable quantity” of infectious H5N1 bird flu virus was still present following a common approach to pasteurizing milk, according to the study … Read more
