Patient Resources
- Home
- Patient Resources
- Search Results
Get Healthy!
Results for search "Bird Flu".
Health News Results - 99
Bird flu is changing fast and could become more dangerous to humans, new research from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte suggests.
A team of scientists found that the H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, is becoming more adept at infecting mammals.
That inc...
.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&mode=crop&crop=focalpoint)
A controversial proposal from U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to let bird flu naturally spread through poultry farms is raising alarms among scientists -- who say the move could be inhumane and dangerous.
Kennedy recently suggested that instead of culling infected birds, farmers should ...
MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There's a new reason to steer clear of raw cheese: New research shows it can harbor the infectious bird flu virus for months.
"There is a risk of infection," lead study author Dr. Diego Diel, an associate professor at Cornell University, told CNN. "It obviously...
Scientists have created a handheld sensor that can quickly detect bird flu (H5N1) in the air, potentially stopping outbreaks before they spread.
Research published recently in the journal ACS Sensors noted the sensor is low-cost, highly sensitive and works within minutes.
Bird flu spreads when infected r...
With egg prices soaring due to a severe bird flu outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $1 billion plan to contain the disease and help poultry farmers recover.
The outbreak has destroyed flocks nationwide, with more than 166 million birds lost since 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease...
For the first time, bird flu has been detected in rats, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed, according to a recent report.
Bird flu, otherwise known as H5N1 avian influenza, was found in four black rats in Riverside County, California, where two recent poultry outbreaks were reported.
Officials said the rats were likely infected after exposure to sick birds on ...
Two indoor cats in Oregon were euthanized after contracting bird flu, leading to a recall of raw pet food sold in both Oregon and Washington, health officials have announced.
The cats were from separate households and had consumed the same Wild Coast Raw Boneless Free Range Chicken Formula before falling ill.
Testing confirmed pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), otherwise known as bi...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- |
- February 20, 2025
- |
- Full Page
The highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus may be spreading through the air under certain conditions, according to a new study from the Czech Republic.
Government veterinarians made the discovery while investigating a mysterious outbreak at a highly secured chicken farm last February.
The farm had strict b...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted conditional approval for a new bird flu vaccine for poultry.
This new avian flu vaccine, developed by New Jersey-based Zoetis, was approved last week after meeting safety and efficacy standards.
“We’ve been working with the administration and with Congress, and we’re very ex...
Three U.S. dairy veterinarians unknowingly had H5N1 infections, otherwise known as bird flu.
This included one person who worked only in states without known outbreaks in cows, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The findings, published Feb. 1...
Scientists are calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to disclose data about the risks of bird flu to people and pets that was posted briefly online Wednesday and quickly deleted.
The data table was the only mention of bird flu in a report devo...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
- |
- February 7, 2025
- |
- Full Page
When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns one infectious disease expert.
If and when bird flu -- already widespread in cattle, cats and other mammals -- gains the ability to transmit between people, the best Americans can hope for is to "cont...
A rapidly-spreading H5N1 avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, has been devastating bird flocks and showing signs of spreading to other mammals.
Since 2022, more than 147 million birds in the U.S. have been affected. Already this year, more than
As a bird flu outbreak escalates across the U.S., the Trump administration has paused the release of key public health studies, stalling research that could provide insight into how the virus spreads to animals and people.
The blocked studies were supposed to be p...
A commercial turkey flock in North Carolina has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture confirmed Tuesday.
The affected flock is in Sampson County and is the second case in the state this year, according to WRAL-TV in Raleigh. The first was detected in Hyde County earlier this month.
"It's bee...
A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it continues to spread.
The strain was discovered at a commercial duck farm in California's Merced County, and was reported to the World Organization for Animal Health, which maintains a database of animal disease threats.
The detection comes as the nation continues ...
Reports of cats becoming seriously ill or dying after consuming raw pet food or milk tainted with the deadly bird flu virus have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to urge pet food manufacturers to take extra precautions.
The FDA recently advised pet food companies to source ingredients from healthy animals and use processes such as heat treatment to inactivate any virus...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- |
- January 27, 2025
- |
- Full Page
The last duck farm on New York's Long Island is facing an uncertain future after a bird flu outbreak forced the culling of nearly 100,000 ducks.
The highly contagious H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, was detected at the farm last week prompting a government-mandated quarantine and disinfection process.
“This has spread like wildfire here,”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.
This funding, announced Friday by Moderna, builds on the $176 million it received from HHS
For the first time, bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia.
The case — confirmed in Elbert County by the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service — involves the H5N1 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).
It was the fifth time HPAI was detect...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed another human H5N1 avian flu case -- otherwise known as bird flu -- in California on Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of cases to 67.
California has been hit hardest, accounting for 38 cases, according to CDC data.
The latest case involve...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues to grow in the United States and Canada.
The advisory, issued Jan. 16, recommends that h...
A deadly bird flu outbreak has wreaked havoc on U.S. chicken farms, claiming the lives of over 20 million egg-laying chickens last quarter, marking the worst impact on America's egg supply since the outbreak began in 2022.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data shows the staggering toll included chickens culled to contain the virus, too. This, in turn, has contributed to record-high e...
A California man's tragic story highlights the growing risks associated with bird flu infections in domestic animals.
Joseph Journell of San Bernadino lost two of his beloved cats, a 14-year-old tabby, Alexander, and Tuxsie, a 4-year-old tuxedo cat, after they drank raw milk from a lot recalled for H5N1 bird flu contamination, a news release from Associated Press shows.
A t...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- |
- January 13, 2025
- |
- Full Page
A Louisiana resident has died after being hospitalized with bird flu in December of last year, marking the first known U.S. death from the virus.
The patient who, "was over the age of 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions," state health officials announced in a statement, tested positive for the virus and developed sever...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- |
- January 7, 2025
- |
- Full Page
A Canadian teen's severe bird flu infection has highlighted growing concerns about the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, which has seen a steady rise in human cases across the U.S.
According to a news release, the 13-year-old, who was hospita...
Federal health officials have confirmed unsettling new details about the first United States case of severe bird flu, reported recently in a hospitalized patient in Louisiana.
Genetic samples from the patient contained mutations that could, in theory, help the virus better infect human cells.
Importantly, these mutations were observed in the later stages of infection and were not pr...
A devastating bird flu outbreak has killed 20 big cats at the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington, a nonprofit animal sanctuary in Shelton, Wash.
The deaths, which include four cougars and a half-Bengal tiger, have led the sanctuary to declare a quarantine to prevent further spread of the virus.
"Our sanctuary is under quarantine to protect our remaining animals and prevent fur...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- |
- December 27, 2024
- |
- Full Page
A batch of pet food has been voluntarily recalled nationwide after a cat in Oregon died of bird flu, an illness state officials linked to contaminated food.
The recall, according to a news release published Dec. 25, 2024, involves Northwest Naturals’ Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food with sell-by dates between May 21, 2026, and Jun. 23, 2026.
Tests confirmed the batch w...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- |
- December 26, 2024
- |
- Full Page
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a public health emergency on Wednesday as bird flu continues to spread among the state’s dairy cattle.
“This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak,” Newsom explained in a
In a case first reported in Louisiana last Friday, a patient has now developed the first known case of bird flu so severe as to require hospitalization, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Sixty other cases of H5N1 avian flu have been reported in people across the United States since April of this year, but have resulted in relatively mild symptoms that...
Louisiana has reported what appears to be the state's first case of bird flu.
In a health alert issued Friday, state officials said the case involves “a resident of southwestern Louisiana. The individual had exposure to sick and dead birds that are suspected to have been infected with H5N1,” the virus that causes bird flu. The pa...
Picture this: a beloved cat, playful and healthy one day, falls mysteriously ill the next. Soon after, the shocking culprit is revealed -- bird flu, a virus that most people associate with poultry and wild birds.
Now, scientists are warning that domestic cats could potentially prompt a public health crisis.
According to a new study published Dec. 9 in the journal
As an outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows continues, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday that the strain of bird flu detected in a California child is similar to the strain spreading through livestock, though the patient had no known exposure to infected animals.
While the findings were not definitive, tests "showed that the virus was very similar to viruses detected in both dairy ca...
Faced with rising cases of bird flu virus being detected in raw milk in California, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced it would mandate testing for the virus in milk nationwide.
The National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) "builds on measures taken by USDA and federal and state partners since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza [HPAI] H5N1 in dairy ca...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
- |
- December 6, 2024
- |
- Full Page
A California dairy farm has expanded a recall of its raw milk and cream after state health officials discovered bird flu virus in more milk samples.
In a notice posted Tuesday, Fresno-based Raw Farm LLC said it has now recalled all whole milk and cream products with "use by" dates of Nov. 27 to Dec. 13.
Meanwhile, California health ...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
- |
- December 5, 2024
- |
- Full Page
In a development that health experts have warned might come, Canadian officials report that the bird flu virus isolated from a sick teen in Vancouver shows mutations that could help it spread more easily among humans.
At this point, there is no evidence that this particular mutated H5N1 virus has traveled beyond the one Canadian patient: After monitoring of dozens of potential contacts am...
A child in California has tested positive for bird flu, despite having no known contact with infected animals, state officials reported Tuesday.
"California has identified a possible bird flu case in a child in Alameda County who was tested for mild upper respiratory symptoms. The child, who has been treated, is recovering at home," t...
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced that a teen in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.
It’s not clear how the teenager picked up the H5N1 virus because the patient is not known to have any contact with infected animals, officials noted. They a...
The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds.
"It is likely that more than half of the reproductive population died due to the virus. It will take decades before the numbers are back to the 2022 population size," said Vale...
More people in rural America are dying from heart disease, a new study says.
Heart disease deaths increased among 25- to 64-year-olds in U.S. rural areas by about 21% between 2010 and 2022, researchers report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
...
About 7% of dairy workers exposed to the avian flu that is spreading through U.S. herds have become infected themselves, federal experts estimate.
That number highlights concerns that circulating strains of bird flu might become highly infectious in humans, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The findings support the need for ac...
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in poultry and dairy cows in the United States, a case of H5N1 has now been confirmed for the first time in a pig.
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] and Oregon state veterinary officials are investigating positive cases of H5N1 in a backyard farming operation in Oregon that has a mix of poultry and livestock, including swine," the USDA sa...
A second person in Missouri who wasn't exposed to either poultry or dairy cows has been infected with bird flu, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
This person shared a home with a patient who was first hospitalized with bird flu in August, but antibody tests have since shown that symptomatic health care workers who cared for the patient were not infected with the H5N1 virus, the U....
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDayNews) -- Four farm workers who helped cull poultry on an commercial egg farm in Washington are presumed to have been infected with bird flu, making that state the sixth in the country to report human H5N1 infections this year.
"These are the first presumed human cases of H5 virus under investigation in Washington state," the state department of health said...
As an outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows continues to spread in the United States, two more cases have been reported in dairy workers, this time in California.
These are the first human cases of bird flu reported in that state and the 15th and 16th human cases detected in the country this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
"The identification...
In what could be the first cases of bird flu spreading between humans in the United States, a group of potential H5N1 infections in Missouri has now grown to eight.
Antibody tests to confirm any H5N1 infection are still pending.
After a patient with bird flu was hospitalized last month, state and federal health officials first determined the patient may have infected one household m...
Another health care worker who was exposed to a Missouri patient who tested positive for bird flu developed respiratory symptoms but wasn't tested for the flu, U.S. health officials reported Friday.
The news is rekindling worries of person-to-person transmission of the H5N1 bird flu strain.
The week before, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a differe...
An extensive look at wastewater samples taken across the United States from May to July found traces of the H5N1 bird flu popping up -- but only in areas populated by farm animals.
The avian flu virus has been widespread in U.S. poultry as well as herds of dairy cows, raising alarms that the virus might somehow mutate and spread between people.
The wastewater testing performed betwe...
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (Healthday News) -- In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials have reported that a person who lived with a Missouri resident infected with H5N1 became sick the same day.
That close contact "was also ill at the same time, was not tested, and has since recovere...
2025 © All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy