Author: Claudinne Miller
Why Bird Flu Is Infecting People’s Eyes
Scientific American Three U.S. dairy workers have been infected with H5N1 after contact with sick cows, and all of them developed eye symptoms. Bird flu has been behaving very strangely lately. A strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) has been spreading in dairy cows in at least nine U.S. states. Infected cows have very high […]
Jun 4, 2024
Two chickens test positive for bird flu at San Francisco live bird market
CBS News Health officials said Monday that the H5N1 avian flu was detected last month in two asymptomatic chickens at a live bird market in San Francisco, but there is no sign that the public has been exposed. The bird flu virus was found as part of routine tests at live bird markets around the […]
Jun 4, 2024
Fighting bird flu: The vaccine problem with chickens and eggs
Atlanta Journal Constitution Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they’re worrying now. That’s because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredient in making vaccines that, hopefully, will protect people against […]
Jun 4, 2024
The 3rd human case of bird flu in the US has 2 new and troubling symptoms
Business Insider The H5N1 bird-flu virus has once again infected a human. But this time, the unlucky patient had a cough and a sore throat, which is a new milestone for the virus’s spread in the US. The H5N1 virus has become a pandemic among animals, raging through worldwide bird populations and now through US cattle herds. This […]
Jun 4, 2024
Bird flu detected in San Francisco wastewater and chickens
Los Angeles Times As federal and state health officials expand their avian flu surveillance, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has reported that avian flu has been detected in wastewater samples collected in May. The samples were collected after two chickens at a live bird market in the city tested positive for the disease […]
Jun 4, 2024
‘Uncertainty’ Isn’t a Bad Word: U.S. Agencies Must Tighten Up H5N1 Communications
MedPageToday More effective and efficient public messaging is the need of the hour. Less than a month ago, we published a pieceopens in a new tab or window suggesting that H5N1 bird flu could pose an even thornier health communications challenge than COVID-19. We offered a three-point prescription for how the U.S. government agencies most responsible for […]
Jun 4, 2024
Lady Gaga performed on stage with Covid. Did we learn nothing from the pandemic?
The Guardian Should you go into work when you’re sick with a contagious virus? Lady Gaga has spoken and the answer, it seems, is “sure, why not?” During a recent Q&A for an HBO concert special based on her 2022 Chromatica Ball tour, the pop star was asked to reveal something she had never shared […]
May 29, 2024
CDC CDC has sequenced the influenza virus genome identified in a conjunctival specimen collected from the person in Michigan who was identified to be infected with HPAI A(H5N1) virus and compared each gene segment with HPAI A(H5N1) sequences from cows, wild birds and poultry and the first human case in Texas. The virus HA was […]
May 29, 2024
Alpacas test positive for H5N1 bird flu for the first time
CNN Highly pathogenic avian influenza, sometimes called bird flu, has been confirmed in alpacas for the first time, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories. The animals that tested positive were on a farm in Idaho where poultry had tested positive for the virus and were culled in May. The alpacas […]
May 29, 2024
COVID-19 (FLiRT variant, CDC data, long COVID) | H5N1 (2nd dairy worked infected, domestic livestock cases, beef studies)
May 29, 2024