Category: Avian Influenza
CDC says a second health care worker tied to Missouri bird flu case had symptoms
NBC A second health worker in contact with the Missouri patient who tested positive for H5N1 also developed respiratory symptoms but wasn’t tested for influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The Missouri bird flu patient, who didn’t have known contact with poultry or dairy cows, was hospitalized in August and tested positive for the H5 virus. […]
Sep 24, 2024
Is bird flu spreading among people? Data gaps leave researchers in the dark
Nature Researchers are anxiously awaiting data from the midwestern state about a mysterious bird flu infection in a person who had no known contact with potential animal carriers of the disease. The data could reveal whether the ongoing US bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle has reached a dreaded turning point: the emergence of a virus capable […]
Sep 24, 2024
Thousands of turkeys killed in Merced County as officials battle avian flu outbreak
Fresno Bee More than 64,000 turkeys at a Merced County poultry operation are being killed after agriculture officials recently discovered they were infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza. The highly contagious and deadly virus has become the scourge of the poultry industry since an outbreak began in 2022. More than 92 million poultry and […]
Sep 24, 2024
Bird flu detected in San Diego County wastewater
Fox 5 News San Diego County is now the fifth location in California to detect the bird flu, county officials announced Monday. San Diego County reports though there are no confirmed human cases, the H5 influenza virus — commonly known as the bird flu — was detected in wastewater in San Diego County during testing […]
Sep 18, 2024
CDC says close contact of Missouri bird flu patient showed symptoms
NBC In a report Friday, the agency said the second person was not tested and has recovered. A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a Missouri patient who tested positive for the bird flu virus, the agency quietly disclosed in its weekly influenza […]
Sep 18, 2024
California reports a total of eight H5N1 bird flu outbreaks among dairy herds
Los Angeles Times The number of California dairy herds reported to have outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu has grown to eight. Officials have refused to disclose the locations of the infected herds, but have said they are in close proximity somewhere in California’s Central Valley — an 18,000-square-mile expanse that is roughly the size of […]
Sep 17, 2024
CDC says close contact of Missouri bird flu patient showed symptoms
NBC News In a report Friday, the agency said the second person was not tested and has recovered. A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a Missouri patient who tested positive for the bird flu virus, the agency quietly disclosed in its weekly […]
Sep 17, 2024
The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn
Wired US health officials say they don’t know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu. THIS YEAR IN the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became infected after coming into contact with poultry, and four got the virus from exposure to dairy cows. The source of […]
Sep 17, 2024
The U.S. can, and should, do more on H5N1 bird flu, a top WHO official says
STAT The world is watching the response to the spread of the virus in dairy cattle, Maria Van Kerkhove said. More work needs to be done by the agricultural sector to get to the bottom of — and put a stop to — transmission of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle in the United States, a […]
Sep 17, 2024
CDC Confirms Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri
CDC CDC has confirmed a human case of avian influenza A(H5) (“H5 bird flu”) reported by the state of Missouri. The case was identified through that state’s seasonal flu surveillance system. The specimen was forwarded to CDC for confirmatory testing per usual protocols and confirmed yesterday. An investigation into the potential exposure is ongoing by […]
Sep 10, 2024