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Mexican child infected with H5N1 bird flu dies from respiratory complications
A 3-year-old girl from Durango, Mexico, has died from H5N1 Bird Flu, according to the World Health Organization. The child ...
Doctors: How likely is it that bird flu will spread to humans on a mass scale?
Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...
A spray in a cow's nose could soon protect it, and people, from bird flu
It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...
Mexico confirms country's first human death from H5N1 bird flu
A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry said ...
Bird flu has decimated flocks — but not at San Diego zoos. Here’s how they keep condors, penguins and more safe.
Safari Park, San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld have not seen any of the animals in their collections infected in the three years ...
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U.S. Bird Flu Response Suffers as Farm Workers Fear Deportation
As the bird flu outbreak continues, public health outreach to farm workers is meeting fear and resistance amid Trump’s ...
Trump's immigration tactics obstruct efforts to avert bird flu pandemic, researchers say
Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...
We’ve entered a forever war with bird flu
Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely in domestic and wild animals, while exact transmission routes remain ...
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CDC confirms first case of H5N1 Bird Flu in Louisiana
Louisiana health officials have confirmed Louisiana’s first patient has been hospitalized with a severe case of the H5N1 Bird Flu. The patient from the southwest region of the state had been ...
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First US H5N1 bird flu death, but wider risk low
What you need to know A Louisiana person has died from H5N1 bird flu, though they were in an at-risk age group and had underlying health conditions. 66 people in the US have contracted the strain ...
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Bird Flu Found in Sheep in U.K., a World First
Bird Flu Found in Sheep: The H5N1 virus was detected in a single ... First Death in U.S.: A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality ...