US authorities have shut down live bird markets in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County for seven days due to ...

Following reports of bird flu (H5NI) from Maharashtra and suspected cases in Andhra Pradesh, poultry farmers in Telangana ...

New York ordered live poultry markets closed after detecting avian flu cases. Officials stress no public health threat, but ...

Bird flu, Covid-19, and influenza are all respiratory infections spreading through respiratory droplets. While influenza ...

USAID staff cuts could disrupt aid projects and strain US ties with developing nations. The move has also reportedly halted ...

NEW YORK — All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week after ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

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