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Farmers resist push for workers to wear protective gear against bird flu virus
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week that dairy and…
Listen: Everything you need to know about H5N1 bird flu
What happens when a common virus jumps from birds to cows? And should we be…
Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It’s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak
Twenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked…
Opinion: H5N1 communication has been strictly for the birds. Didn’t the federal government learn anything from Covid?
When it comes to federal agencies communicating to the public about H5N1 bird flu, it…
Large amount of bird flu virus in milk suggests asymptomatic cows are infected with H5N1
Since March, when the first reported cases of H5N1 bird flu began showing up in…
WHO’s top scientist learned a hard lesson about H5N1 two decades ago: Stopping it takes more than biology
Jeremy Farrar, now the World Health Organization’s chief scientist, was working in Vietnam 20 years…
Opinion: As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements
The presence of H5N1 avian influenza virus, better known as bird flu, among dairy cows…
Study of cow tissues provides clues for unusual pattern of bird flu infections in dairy cattle
A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to…
Merck may have a competition for ever-scarce BCG
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Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from mammal to human, scientists say
A new report on the first human bird flu case tied to the outbreak in…
CDC’s top flu scientist says the risk to the public from H5N1 is low, but she isn’t sleeping well. Here’s why
Vivien Dugan isn’t getting much sleep these days. The director of the influenza division at…
Bird flu virus circulated in cows for four months before outbreak confirmed by USDA, analysis shows
As agricultural authorities and epidemiologists try to get their arms around the scope of the…
Republicans, concerned about dairy industry, urge calm about H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers have one big message on the avian flu outbreak in cows:…
Tracking bird flu virus changes in cows is stymied by missing data, scientists say
Another upload of genetic sequence data from the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle…
Opinion: From sewage to safety: Hospital wastewater surveillance as a beacon for defense against H5N1 bird flu
Pandemics start slowly — a few cases here, a few there — until suddenly people…
Pasteurization inactivates H5N1 bird flu in milk, new FDA and academic studies confirm
Extensive testing of pasteurized commercially purchased milk and other dairy products from 38 states has…
What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people
The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks…
There’s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now’s a really bad time as bird flu infects cows
Scientists who know about the types of pathogens — E. coli and Salmonella among them…
Cattle testing for H5N1 bird flu will be more limited than USDA initially announced
New federal rules aimed at limiting the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among…
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University had a hunch. He had been…
STAT+: Washington kicks into gear on H5N1
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Watch: What we know about traces of H5N1 bird flu found in pasteurized milk
Genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus was found in grocery store milk in the United…
USDA orders H5N1 testing of some dairy cows to limit spread of bird flu
The U.S. Department of Agriculture moved to try to limit spread of the H5N1 bird…
Massive amounts of H5N1 vaccine would be needed if there’s a bird flu pandemic. Can we make enough?
The unsettling reality of H5N1 bird flu circulating in dairy cow herds in multiple parts…
Genetic analysis reveals H5N1 flu virus outbreak in cows likely started earlier than thought
The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows in the United States has likely been…
H5N1 bird flu virus particles found in pasteurized milk but FDA says commercial milk supply appears safe
WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk…