Bird flu articles
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Bird Flu, aka Avian Flu, 2024: What To Know About US Outbreak
Earlier this month, a dairy worker in Texas tested positive for bird flu, aka avian influenza, amid an outbreak of the virus among dairy cattle. It's the first time this virulent strain of bird flu — referred to as highly pathogenic H5N1 — has been detected in cows and the first documented cow-to-human transmission of an avian influenza virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's also only the second case of bird flu in a human in the United States. Is bird flu...
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Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
Last Friday, a health alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pinged its way across the inboxes of clinicians and state health departments all over the US. The message described how a dairy farm worker in Texas had contracted H5N1, the highly infectious strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, that’s currently circling worldwide. The dairy worker had caught the virus, apparently, from cattle. The CDC’s alert urged doctors to be vigilant and consider H5N1 a possibility in any...
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Bird Flu: Psy-Op or the Real Deal?
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