Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu?
Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ourselves, could be a mixing vessel,” Davis says. If a person were simultaneously infected with bird flu and seasonal flu, the two viruses could theoretically combine to create a more transmissible strain.
Bird flu infections in farmworkers are going undetected, study shows
A new study found that a small but not insignificant number of bird flu infections are going undetected among farm workers
Bird flu is confirmed in hospitalized Canadian teen
Initial testing had indicated the teenager's infection was from bird flu and was confirmed in further testing, the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a statement. The teen has been hospitalized in Vancouver since Friday and was reported in critical condition on Tuesday.
With B.C. teen sick in hospital with suspected bird flu, what should parents know?
Dr. Anna Wolak, a family physician in Vancouver, said many parents are likely having flashbacks to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite this flu being a single case.
UK confirms bird flu cases at commercial poultry farm
Bird flu has killed hundreds of millions of birds around the globe in recent years. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Canadian Teen Hospitalized in Critical Condition With Bird Flu
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced that a teen in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.
Teen infected in Canada’s first bird flu case is in critical condition
A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in critical condition and experiencing difficulty breathing, health officials said Tuesday.
Canadian Teen In Critical Condition With Suspected Case Of Bird Flu
The teenager was healthy before developing symptoms and is not known to have any contact with infected animals, health officials said.
Canada Detects Its First Human Case of Bird Flu
A teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized in critical condition with the disease, and officials were working to find out how the person was exposed to the virus.
Canadian teenager infected with H5N1 bird flu in critical condition
Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia teenager has experts worried.
Bird flu virus detected in pigs for the first time in US
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Here's Everything Experts Say You Need To Know About Bird Flu
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Elephant seal numbers drop after avian flu outbreak: First report of transmission between marine mammals
The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it's quieter. Almost exactly a year after a massive outbreak of H5N1 highly ...
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Could bird flu spark the next pandemic - and are we prepared if it does?
Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, and it won’t be the last. Should we be worried about frequent news reports ...
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Oregon first state to report new spike in avian flu during fall waterfowl migration
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was first detected in wild birds in North American in December 2021 and in Oregon in May 2022. Unlike previous outbreaks of HPAI in 2005 and 2014-15 ...
Inside Canada's chaotic response to avian flu
Avian flu is still present in Canada. As of Nov. 1, there were only 11 active infections in the country, almost all of them in B.C. But rates have come down since the initial wave of infections in ...