The county health department said this is its first reported case of backyard flock H5N1 since the initial outbreak of the highly contagious avian virus began in 2022, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom ...
Veterinary and public health officials are urging cat owners to remain vigilant as cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...
The H5N1 virus has killed at least 88 of the 165 people known to have been infected with it. Nearly all those cases have been in East Asia, though deaths have been recorded recently in Turkey and ...
It also recommends asking about recent close contact with a symptomatic person with a possible or confirmed case of H5N1. Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, director of CDC's National Center for ...
Since that time, 67 people have been infected with H5N1 bird flu. In 63 of those cases, workers picked up the virus while working with infected animals; 40 got it working with dairy cattle ...
Remarkably, all but one case – a Louisiana man in his mid-60s who succumbed to the illness earlier this month – have recovered. But since 2003, H5N1 bird flu has infected around 950 people ...
The UK Health Security Agency, UKHSA, has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Simultaneously the UK Chief Veterinary Officer has ordered a new Avian ...