Epidemiologists (those who study the spread of diseases) often find themselves in a most unenviable position. A new, highly transmissible disease is identified and they feel compelled to warn of the dangers of an impending pandemic. Such was the position …

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A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both reported outbreaks of avian flu this week. The latest developments on the virus also include infected dairy cows and the first known instance of a human catching bird flu from a mammal. A …

Health H5N1, one of the many viruses that cause bird flu, had already killed at least 24,000 South American sea lions along the continent’s coasts in less than a year. Now it had come for elephant seals. Young chickens at a farm in Pescadero, Calif., on …

The bird flu outbreak in recent years has infected not only millions of wild birds and poultry but also mammals. While transmissions of the bird-borne disease may seem to be limited between animals, its threat to humans is growing by the minute. Recently, …

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With H5N1 bird flu spreading to more dairy cow herds, scientists and pandemic experts in this country and abroad are calling on the U.S. government to release more information to help them assess the risk the outbreaks pose to cattle operations and people. …

Lawmakers are demanding answers after it was revealed the US is sending taxpayer dollars to a Chinese army lab to make bird flu viruses more dangerous to people. Eighteen members of Congress are demanding answers from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) …

Human infected with H9N2 Virus Vietnam has reported the country’s first human infection with a low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) A(H9N2) virus, according to a press release from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  This is a …

ATLANTA (AP) — A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both recently reported outbreaks of avian flu. The latest developments on the virus also include infected dairy cows and the first known instance of a human catching bird flu from a …