TORONTO, canada — A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, sick with Canada’s first presumptive human case of avian influenza. “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underlying conditions,” said provincial health officer Bonnie Henry in a news conference on Tuesday. “It just reminds us that in … Read more
Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities in Washington and in Oregon, where the human cases were identified. A total of 39 people have tested positive for bird flu in the U.S. this year, including nine … Read more
The Australian government will allocate an additional AU$95 million to prevent a destructive bird flu strain, which has upended the global agricultural industry, from wreaking havoc in the country. The Labor government had earlier granted AU$1 billion toward improving the country’s biosecurity if the avian influenza strain was detected on Australian shores. The H5N1 clade … Read more
IT wasn’t too long ago that the world was reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, so when news about another infectious disease began emerging recently, people were understandably worried. Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been around before affecting livestock but the worry now was that the virus could enter our food supply or that it … Read more
Following reports of a bird flu outbreak that has affected two panchayats in Alappuzha, the director of the health department has been instructed by State Health Minister Veena George to take the necessary action in accordance with the Kerala Public Health Act of 2023.Committees at the panchayat level have been entrusted with evaluating the circumstances … Read more
GENEVA: The World Health Organization voiced alarm Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an “extraordinarily high” mortality rate.“This remains I think an enormous concern,” the UN health agency’s chief scientist Jeremy Farrar told reporters in Geneva.The current bird flu outbreak began in 2020 and has … Read more
Dear Dr. John, I write to ask about the bird flu that seems to be making headlines regarding the danger and death to birds, but also to other species especially marine mammals. I cannot help but wonder if there is any possibility that my family or my dogs might be at risk. Why can a … Read more
A producer of fresh eggs in the United States has temporarily shut down a plant in the southwestern state of Texas after the H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected in chickens. Cal-Maine Foods issued a statement Tuesday that it had destroyed about 1.6 million egg-laying hens and another 337,000 young hens, equaling 3.6% of … Read more
A polar bear in one of the northernmost communities in Alaska has died after contracting bird flu, per local media reports. The case is being described as the first such polar bear death caused by the H5N1 virus, according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The bear was found near Utqiagvik in October of … Read more
