Scientists are getting creative when monitoring bird flu outbreaks – by testing faeces
by Amid widespread gaps in US testing for H5N1, a type of bird flu, and as the second case in humans detected, scientists are turning to …
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As nationwide wastewater testing ramps up, Texas researchers identify bird flu in nine cities
As health officials increasingly turn to wastewater testing as a way to track the spread of H5N1 bird flu among US dairy herds, some researchers …
A lack of bird flu testing may be hindering the spread of the virus on US farms
Serious gaps in animal and human testing may be obscuring the true rate of bird flu cases in the US and making it difficult to …
The bird flu strain found in a US cow that was flown to a UK lab for testing
Avian flu usually spreads by infecting wild birds and moving along migratory routes, but the virus that is currently running rampant in the United States …
how prepared are we for human bird flu?
For the past four years, a silent pandemic has been looming. The death toll is believed to be in the hundreds of millions, but little …
Bird flu detected in Colorado dairy cattle – vet explains risks of highly pathogenic bird flu virus
Colorado has highly pathogenic avian influenza – also known as HPAI or bird flu – on a dairy farm, the ninth state with confirmed cases. …
Cows have human flu receptors, study shows, raising stakes in bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle
In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large animal veterinarian in Texas, gets calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers …
H5N1 bird flu was circulating in dairy cows for four months before it was discovered, USDA scientists say
Bird flu was likely circulating in dairy cows at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to …
What the US bird flu outbreak means for the UK
British scientists are closely monitoring the bird flu outbreak in the United States after the H5N1 virus infected more than 30 cattle herds across dozens …
Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 all over again.
The H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading through US cattle herds for the first time. Scientists are concerned because of the mammal-to-mammal transmission that the …