United States: For over three years, the world is facing global outbreak of bird flu. The virus is on the increasing spread in the US, and affecting food production and animals. Infection rate involves more than 80 million chickens, thousands ...
United States: According to the principal deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr Nirav Shah, there is a dearth of enough testing performed for testing bird flu among people and animals in the US. ...
United States: Farmers would be given new financial incentives by government sources to combat bird flu in their dairy cattle; this led some of them to appreciate the extra money to absorb the huge cost of the problem. However, a ...
Low risk of bird flu transmission from cows to humans; experts monitor mutations while questions arise about vaccine effectiveness despite stockpiling. ...
Bird flu detection in dairy cattle in several US states has sparked concerns about potential cross-species transmission to humans. ...