Regarding Georgia's preparedness to handle a significant H5N1 outbreak, White expressed confidence but acknowledged the need for ongoing vigilance and improvements.

As more humans become infected by H5N1 bird flu, experts worry of a new pandemic with 70 human cases in the U.S. including 1 death. What to look for.

Bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak began in 2022, ... marking the first U.S. death from the H5N1 virus.

There are two types of H5N1: Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Georgia's cases were the latter. It causes severe disease and high mortality in infected poultry.

As per records, the new case marks the fifth case of H5N1 in Georgia since the outbreak began in 2022. However, it is the first case affecting a commercial poultry operation.

Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producing state. Last week, bird flu was found for the first time in a commercial poultry plant in the state. ... The current bird flu strain, H5N1, ...

Sales and markets with live poultry can resume in Georgia after state ... the agency said it conducted 4,541 tests representing 49,951 individual birds and found no additional cases of H5N1.

H5N1 bird flu hits Georgia’s poultry industry, marking the first commercial outbreak in the state. Learn CDC prevention tips to protect public health and livelihoods.

Georgia officials halted all in-state poultry sales, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $590 million to Moderna to develop vaccines to protect people from flu strains in ...

In fact, one of them only worked in Georgia and South Carolina, two states where H5N1 infections in dairy cows and humans have never been reported.

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., ... director of the Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Research at the University of Georgia.

Bird Flu Wrecks Havoc In United States: The H5N1 bird flu virus has hit Georgia's poultry industry, marking the first commercial case in the state. TheHealthSite.com ...