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CDC launching wastewater dashboard to track bird flu virus spread
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/13/cdc-wastewater-surveillance-dashboard-bird-flu-outbreak-monitor/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 13, 2024 08:30
Federal public health officials are turning to wastewater surveillance to help fill in the gaps in efforts to track H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cows.
Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It’s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/09/bird-flu-upends-avian-influenza-dogma/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 9, 2024 08:30
The spread of bird flu in mammals with which humans have close contact has unsettled many scientists. “That’s a different ball game altogether,” one said.
WHO’s top scientist learned a hard lesson about H5N1 two decades ago: Stopping it takes more than biology
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/07/bird-flu-spread-who-chief-scientist-farrar-on-stopping-h5n1/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 7, 2024 08:30
Dairy farmers' reluctance to report H5N1 infections among cows or allow testing of their workers is complicating the public health response to the bird flu.
Study of cow tissues provides clues for unusual pattern of bird flu infections in dairy cattle
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/06/bird-flu-spread-study-of-h5n1-virus-infection-in-cows/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 6, 2024 19:50
Location of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in cows may help explain pattern of illness in H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle.
Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from mammal to human, scientists say
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/03/bird-flu-virus-texas-dairy-farm-worker-first-mammal-to-human-spread/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 3, 2024 14:00
A new report suggests that the Texas man who was infected with bird flu virus may be the first detected case H5N1 transmitting from a mammal to a person.
CDC’s top flu scientist says the risk to the public from H5N1 is low, but she isn’t sleeping well. Here’s why
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/03/bird-flu-why-h5n1-keeping-awake-cdc-top-flu-scientist/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 3, 2024 08:30
Vivien Dugan, director of the flu division at the CDC, is helping to lead the national response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in cows.
Tracking bird flu virus changes in cows is stymied by missing data, scientists say
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/02/bird-flu-in-cows-h5n1-virus-changes-missing-data/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: May 2, 2024 08:30
Scientists are frustrated that the USDA again failed to include basic information about H5N1 genetic sequences from cows when the data were released this week.
What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/30/h5n1-bird-flu-virus-cows-and-risk-to-people/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: April 30, 2024 08:30
Questions about H5N1 for which there are pretty clear answers when it comes to birds are suddenly unsettled science in cows.
There’s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now’s a really bad time as bird flu infects cows
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: April 29, 2024 08:30
Experts say the the danger associated with raw milk consumption may have gone to a whole new level as bird flu spreads among cows.
USDA orders H5N1 testing of some dairy cows to limit spread of bird flu
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/24/h5n1-bird-flu-usda-orders-dairy-cow-testing/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: April 24, 2024 17:30
The USDA moved to try to limit spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cattle on Wednesday.