bird flu

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia’s Victoria state said on Tuesday, taking the total number of infected facilities in the country to 10.…
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The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Friday. Seasonal…
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An uncomfortable truth is that there is another influenza pandemic in humankind’s future. Whether it will be a relative of the lethal avian flu strain currently wreaking havoc in bird populations around the globe is anyone’s guess.…
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Russia announced Saturday that its scientists discovered the first case of infection with the "H5N8" strain of bird flu to humans, and they informed the World Health Organization of this. "The information about the world's first human…
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MANILA - (Reuters): The Philippines' Ministry of Agriculture said, Tuesday, that the country is now free of the highly contagious bird flu virus (H5N6), according to the World Organization for Animal Health. "As of January 8, the…
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