How US Farms Could Start the Avian Flu Pandemic
by Without a sharp pivot in state and federal policies, the bird flu virus that has bedeviled American farms is likely to find a firm foothold …
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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 …
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 …
Flu virus spikes in wastewater raise questions about the spread of bird flu
Spikes of the influenza A virus seen in wastewater samples from 59 sewage systems across 18 different states this spring could indicate the spread of …
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 …