• Samples from those birds were being tested in Britain for possible infection with the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which experts are tracking for fears it could mutate and spawn a human flu pandemic. (pravda.ru)
  • The H5N1 strain, which has not yet been confirmed in Europe, has killed dozens of people in Asia. (pravda.ru)
  • Recently, the rapid spread of influenza A/H5N1 virus to new geographic regions, possibly by migrating waterfowl, has caused concern among public health officials who fear an influenza pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Until now, serologic studies of the transmission of subtype H5N1 and other highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza have focused on humans who have contact with infected domestic poultry ( 3 , 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • More than all, the H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus called, Bird Flu, is the fear of mankind . (biblesearchers.com)
  • Neither of the most recent cases were suspected to have been infected with a mutated strain of the H5N1 virus that killed three Egyptian members of one family in December. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • In less than two weeks, South Korea has confirmed 11 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain, which had been contained in the southwest of the country, some 320 km south of Seoul. (china.org.cn)
  • After confirming that the outbreak occurred at poultry farm last week was caused by the H5N1 strain, South Korea is now planning to kill a number of birds and other animals like pigs, dogs and cats in order to curb the spread of highly pathogenic form of bird flu. (flutrackers.com)
  • Officials on Saturday ascertained that the outbreak was caused by the H5N1 virus and began slaughtering birds Sunday. (flutrackers.com)
  • The viruses found in two different places, however, the Agriculture Ministry said were not the H5N1 strain. (flutrackers.com)
  • Crawford said the latter scenario is more likely, considering people view the H5N1 strain of bird flu as being fairly dangerous. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • Crawford said different strains of bird flu entered the country in the early '80s, but they weren't as dangerous as the H5N1 virus. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • In the UK, an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu on a turkey farm belonging to the transnational producer Bernard Matthews has now been linked to recent imports of semi-processed meat from the company's Hungarian operations, where an identical strain of the virus has been identified. (iuf.org)
  • PHNOM PENH-The sudden death of hundreds of ducks near the Cambodian capital has raised new fears that the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus may have reappeared in the country, sources here say. (rfa.org)
  • The H5N1 strain of the virus has so far killed more than 70 people since it was first reported in Asia in 2003. (rfa.org)
  • In 2011, 34 people , out of 62 reported cases from five countries, died from a different strain of the flu, H5N1, that can infect humans. (ibtimes.com)
  • Earlier this year, a new H5N1 strain of bird flu that is highly contagious among wild birds explosively spread to new geographical regions, infecting and killing a variety of mammal species and raising fears of a pandemic among humans. (canadianpoultrymag.com)
  • Many experts fear that H5N1, the recent Avian Flu virus spreading through Asia and Europe, will greatly surpass the previous pandemic. (postfalls-naturopathic.com)
  • The H5N1 strain of Avian flu has already started to claim lives in the Far East. (abcmoney.co.uk)
  • WHO officials are worried that the H5N1 strain will eventually mutate thus spreading easily from birds to humans. (abcmoney.co.uk)
  • ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish teenager whose brother died of bird flu also succumbed to the disease Thursday, a Turkish doctor said, as authorities tried to determine if the siblings had contracted the worrisome H5N1 strain of the virus. (foxnews.com)
  • If so, the brother and sister would be the first people to die outside eastern Asia in the latest outbreak of the H5N1 strain. (foxnews.com)
  • Authorities are closely monitoring H5N1, for fear it could mutate into a form easily passed between humans and spark a pandemic. (foxnews.com)
  • Birds in Turkey, Romania, Russia and Croatia have recently tested positive for H5N1. (foxnews.com)
  • Global health officials are worried another strain could make a jump into humans, like H5N1 did in the late 1990s. (trust.org)
  • While there would normally be around two or three bird flu strains recorded in birds at any one time, now there are at least half a dozen, including H5N1, H5N2, H5N8 and H7N8. (trust.org)
  • Egypt, whose 80 million people make it the Arab world's most populous country, is already struggling with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, and says it is not taking the swine flu lightly. (medindia.net)
  • To date, roughly 103 people have been infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus--or bird flu. (sourcewatch.org)
  • It was H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza. (stores-sud.com)
  • Over the last few years, a new variant of H5N1 has spread widely through wild and domestic bird populations around the world. (stores-sud.com)
  • Peruvian health officials collected dead pelicans suspected of having H5N1 flu on San Pedro Beach in December. (stores-sud.com)
  • Following the emergence of avian influenza H5N1 and the fear of its pandemic potential, having an adequate preparedness plan became a priority as the World Health Organization (WHO) urged every country to develop and maintain an up-to-date national influenza preparedness plan, and provided guidance on plan content (5). (who.int)
  • Paragraph 1 stated in that the causative agent, the H5N1 strain of Influenzavirus A , had crossed the species barrier and had infected humans, proving fatal in more than half the cases, whereas in paragraph 4 it was stated that no human case had been associated with any of the most recent animal outbreaks. (who.int)
  • Following the emergence of avian influenza H5N1 to the H1N1 pandemic was a learning experience on and the fear of its pandemic potential, having an adequate which capacity to face future events in the Region can preparedness plan became a priority as the World Health be built and strengthened. (who.int)
  • February 25, 2023 - Two human infections with avian influenza A H5N1 (H5N1 bird flu) virus have been reported by Cambodia. (cdc.gov)
  • The 2.3.2.1c viruses in Cambodia are different from H5N1 viruses currently circulating in wild birds and poultry in the United States and other countries, which are H5 clade 2.3.4.4b. (cdc.gov)
  • For the United States, the ongoing outbreaks of 2.3.4.4b clade H5N1 bird flu in wild birds and poultry with sporadic spillover events into some mammals remains mainly an agricultural issue. (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. Department of Interior and USDA APHIS are the lead federal agencies for H5N1 in birds, poultry, and animals in the U.S. They are respectively responsible for outbreak investigation and control of bird flu in wild birds and in domestic poultry. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC has been actively working on the domestic H5N1 situation since the initial detection of H5N1 in U.S. wild birds and poultry in early 2022. (cdc.gov)
  • This includes preparing for the possibility that H5N1 viruses circulating in birds in the United States and in other countries gain the ability to easily infect and spread between people. (cdc.gov)
  • A study published Thursday shows how a bird flu virus that's sickening and killing people in China could mutate to potentially become more contagious. (keranews.org)
  • However, scientists have raised concerns that bird flu strains could mutate to be transmitted between humans. (phys.org)
  • The greatest fear is that a deadly strain of avian flu could then mutate into a pandemic form that can be passed easily between people - something that has not yet been seen. (trust.org)
  • What is different about A/H1N1 is that, unlike other new strains of viruses that rapidly mutate upon emerging and then slow down mutation and then stop entirely, the �novel� or incorrectly-named �swine flu� is showing no signs yet of slowing down its mutation rate and that, according to scientists who worry about A/H1N1 being synthetically-generated, does not happen in nature. (blogspot.com)
  • Food and water was delivered Monday to the village of Ceamurlia de Jos, where movement of animals and humans was restricted after the ducks were found to have died of bird flu, reports the AP. (pravda.ru)
  • To our knowledge, this study is the first to show direct transmission of influenza A viruses from wild birds to humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Softpedia News - 'As the Western Pacific Regional meeting of the World Health Organization started today in Noumea, public health officials from more than 20 countries gathered to discuss ways to prevent a possible deadly outbreak of bird flu in humans and contain some other possible large epidemics. (biblesearchers.com)
  • A sometimes lethal strain of H7N9 bird flu that has infected about 1,500 people in China doesn't spread easily among humans - yet. (keranews.org)
  • So far, unlike other strains that more commonly infect humans, this deadly virus does not spread easily between people. (keranews.org)
  • Just six died of 14 people who contracted bird flu in Egypt between March 2006 - when the virus first surfaced in humans in the country - and May when human cases briefly disappeared. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Seven Egyptians have contracted bird flu since the disease reappeared in humans in Egypt in October following the lull. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • If the avian flu strain ever reaches their territories, chicken growers are confident that it is unlikely to infect their isolated chickens, let alone humans. (pyroenergen.com)
  • Brands, as consumers shunned chicken due to the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in humans. (straitstimes.com)
  • An outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, found in humans for the first time, has killed 33 people in China since the government began reporting figures in late March, according to the official news agency Xinhua. (straitstimes.com)
  • The appearance of the virus in Turkey has fueled fears of an eventual mutation that would allow the virus to jump from humans to other humans-triggering a worldwide pandemic. (rfa.org)
  • But H5N2, the strain currently hitting the Midwest, poses a low threat to humans, say the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (ibtimes.com)
  • According to Science magazine, the 1918 flu jumped from birds to humans with minimal change, much like today's avian bird flu (February 6). (thetrumpet.com)
  • Scientists estimated in a study published three years ago that the number of wild birds in North America had fallen by nearly 3 billion since 1970 as humans continue to encroach on their habitat. (phys.org)
  • Ian MacKay, a virologist at Australia's University of Queensland, said the current proliferation of strains means that "by definition, there is an increased risk" to humans. (trust.org)
  • The H7N9 virus, which has killed 17 and sickened at least 82 people since March, is thought to pass from birds to humans. (healthmedicinet.com)
  • But he said this avian virus is unusual in that it doesn't make birds sick, only humans. (flutrackers.com)
  • The avian flu has primarily affected birds in Asia, but it has the potential to spread to humans across the globe, and could kill millions of people. (voanews.com)
  • WMR has learned from an A/H1N1 researcher that the current �novel� flu strain is mutating rapidly in humans but no animals have contracted the virus. (blogspot.com)
  • But public health officials around the world are warning that the casualty numbers could be much higher if the virus becomes more easily transmittable between humans. (sourcewatch.org)
  • In addition, the raising of free-range domestic poultry resulted in contact with wild birds, and increased the likelihood of transmission of the virus to humans. (who.int)
  • In February 2021, public health officials in Oregon and Washington, USA, isolated a strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium from humans and a wild songbird. (bvsalud.org)
  • Quarantine officials have already killed 125,000 chickens within a 500-metre (1,650-foot) radius of the avian influenza strain affected site in Iksan, in order to block the spread of the deadly virus. (flutrackers.com)
  • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports this new avian influenza strain has been found in 33 states, with eagles affected in at least 15. (phys.org)
  • If they were to be given infected poultry and poultry byproducts with an avian influenza strain, those mink could potentially get avian influenza," said Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, who directs the One Health Office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (stores-sud.com)
  • Public health officials have been worried about this bird flu virus, called H7N9, because it's known to have infected more than 1,500 people - and killed 40 percent of them. (keranews.org)
  • Because of those concerns, he now wants to test these genetic changes - not in the H7N9 virus itself, but rather in a weakened strain of flu that can move from ferret to ferret, the lab stand-in for people in flu studies. (keranews.org)
  • Hong Kong has suspended live poultry imports to control the spread of a serious bird flu outbreak after samples from Tuen Mun tested positive for the H7N9 strain. (foodnavigator-asia.com)
  • The government's Food and Health Bureau has placed an interim ban on all live poultry trade after a faecal sample tested positive for the lethal H7N9 avian influenza (AI) strain on Sunday 5 June. (foodnavigator-asia.com)
  • The H7N9 strain was detected on 16 May and the 21-day cooling period has already passed. (foodnavigator-asia.com)
  • In China, H7N9 strains of bird flu have been infecting both birds and people, with the of human cases rising in recent weeks due to the peak of the flu season there. (trust.org)
  • According to the WHO, more than 900 people have been infected with H7N9 bird flu since it emerged in early 2013. (trust.org)
  • By Lavinia Mo HONG KONG (Reuters) - The H7N9 bird flu virus may be capable of spreading from human to human and can be transmitted not only through direct contact but also through airborne exposure, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have found. (findhealthclinics.com)
  • On April 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that avian influenza A (H7N9), a type of flu usually seen in birds, has been identified in a number of people in China. (findhealthclinics.com)
  • Hong Kong - Hong Kong health officials said Sunday they had stepped up surveillance at border control points as more swine flu cases were reported in Mexico and the US. (topnews.in)
  • Hong Kong has put in place stringent border health checks in the wake of a bird flu outbreak that killed six and infected 18 in 1997 and a SARS outbreak that killed 299 and infected 1,800 in 2003. (topnews.in)
  • Hong Kong's Food and Health Bureau is still unsure about whether the strain came from a local poultry farm in Tuen Mun, or from either mainland Hong Kong or China. (foodnavigator-asia.com)
  • The mix is also likely to replace the influenza B Hong Kong strain with one called Shanghai B strain, even though influenza B strains caused fewer than 10 percent of infections. (newmediaexplorer.org)
  • He said the H1N1 strain was identified within 24 hours and he said he is confident that if a new strain of flu appears in Nova Scotia, the right protocols are in place for a swift identification of the virus. (flutrackers.com)
  • Swine flu, a type of influenza caused by a new strain of the H1N1 Type A influenza virus has originated from the pigs. (medindia.net)
  • Although the last influenza H1N1 pandemic in 2009 was mild, fear prevails that the next one might not be (1,2). (who.int)
  • Predicting preparedness plans in the region reveal that WHO EMR's when or where an influenza pandemic may arise, or even response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was successful in which strain will be the culprit is a difficult task ( 4 ). (who.int)
  • Genome Hotspots for Nucleotide Substitutions and the Evolution of Influenza A (H1N1) Human Strains. (cdc.gov)
  • A total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection have been identified in 6 states. (cdc.gov)
  • 1,134 people infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella were reported from 49 states and the District of Columbia. (cdc.gov)
  • If the bird flu virus is carried by migratory birds to poultry farms, then where do these migratory birds acquire such a virus? (pyroenergen.com)
  • Licenses for bird shooting have been suspended due to fear of infection by migratory birds , and people have been advised not to buy game birds at local markets. (phys.org)
  • Bird flu doesn't originate in commercial poultry flocks but is instead brought to flocks through migratory birds often through a shared water source. (cool987fm.com)
  • The location of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) makes it important for influenza A virus circulation, as EMR countries lie under four of the eight global migratory bird flyways: Central Asia-India, West Asia-Africa, Mediterranean-Black Sea, and East Atlantic (8). (who.int)
  • In Guinea-Bissau and some other African countries, natural parks were host to various species of migratory birds. (who.int)
  • It also confirmed another case of the positive H5 strain in a farm in Sunchang county in North Jeolla province, raising fears that the virus is spreading fast and the country may see a repeat of late 2003 when it had to kill 5.3 million birds. (china.org.cn)
  • We have culled around 2.3 million birds so far and the number will easily outgrow the 2006 level when we slaughtered 2.8 million," Kim Chang-seop, a ministry official in charge of livestock quarantine, told reporters. (china.org.cn)
  • The country had slaughtered 5.3 million birds and also cats and dogs during the last known outbreak of bird flu in 2003, in an attempt to prevent the disease from spreading. (flutrackers.com)
  • An outbreak of a strain of avian flu has affected as many as 24 million birds in the U.S. Midwest, and officials say they don't know how it's spreading. (ibtimes.com)
  • Hungarian farmers have had to cull 3 million birds, mostly geese and ducks. (trust.org)
  • It's only been seven years since around 9 million birds across 110 Minnesota farms were killed by avian influenza or were euthanized to prevent the spread. (cool987fm.com)
  • The Bismarck Tribune reports that there are nine turkey farms in North Dakota producing around a million birds annually. (cool987fm.com)
  • The outbreak cost poultry producers nearly 59 million birds across 47 states, including egg-laying chickens and turkeys and chickens raised for meat. (wtrf.com)
  • We hear of mysterious viral illnesses that are given multiple other viral names but we suspect, is this the Bird Flu? (biblesearchers.com)
  • LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. (trust.org)
  • And what are the most common reasons that we "guess wrong" in terms of which viral strains will be responsible for the next season's flu? (cdc.gov)
  • President Bush has considered the possibility of implementing a military quarantine of any areas potentially affected by a bird flu crisis. (postfalls-naturopathic.com)
  • Hall said the center had to set up an area where workers wearing protective gear test sick and injured birds for avian influenza and quarantine them before bringing them into the center, to avoid infecting other birds. (phys.org)
  • The virus is believed to have originated from a farm in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, and quarantine officials warned that bird flu could hit at least six cities and provinces across the country. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Yet the greatest fear of all mankind today flies on the wings of the vast migrations of geese and ducks and harboring in the foundation protein source of the world s populations: chickens, turkeys and ducks. (biblesearchers.com)
  • Bird flu is not transferred from any external source, but rather it is created by negative energy present at the location where infected chickens are found. (pyroenergen.com)
  • Legarreta owns about six chickens, ducks and geese and said she has received a notice from the federal government alerting her that inspectors might check her birds for avian flu. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • So far, roughly 25 million turkeys and chickens have died or been euthanized in the bird flu outbreak, the largest in U.S. history. (ibtimes.com)
  • Yet birds have continued to fall sick, with flocks totaling more than 2 million turkeys and chickens reported infected Monday and five more farms suspected of having the virus on Wednesday. (ibtimes.com)
  • IRNA said 63,000 chickens, along with 800,000 fertilised eggs and day-old chicks, were culled at a farm in Qazvin province in recent days after an outbreak of the deadly H1N8 and H1N5 strains of the disease. (phys.org)
  • Where the threat of mad cow necessitated the destruction of thousands of cows in 2003, the peril of bird flu necessitated the death of over 100 million chickens in Asia alone. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The latest outbreak of the highly contagious virus has led to the culling of about 37 million chickens and turkeys in U.S. farms since February, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 956 cases of bird flu in wild birds , including at least 54 bald eagles. (phys.org)
  • After the chickens were confirmed to have been infected with the H5N8 strain, some 12,000 chickens and ducks were culled at 14 farms within a 3-kilometer radius of the affected farm on Jeju. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Most of the other eight patients at the hospital were from the same town, some 40 miles away from the town of Aralik where Turkish authorities last week said some chickens had tested positive for an H5 variant of bird flu. (foxnews.com)
  • One of them is to strengthen the global surveillance system, so that when a pandemic strain emerges, we can recognize it as soon as possible and try to bring efforts to contain it, before it spreads widely. (voanews.com)
  • Each additional case provides the virus an opportunity to improve its ability for human-to-human transmission and develop into a pandemic strain. (sourcewatch.org)
  • The country's health minister urged calm, saying there was no confirmation the fowl were infected with bird flu. (pravda.ru)
  • Grigore Mertoiu, head of health and veterinary in the Constanta region, said all farms were ordered to report bird deaths. (pravda.ru)
  • And it probably won't be long before he can propose such an experiment to the NIH, because the Department of Health and Human Services is almost finished with drafting a new policy that spells out how officials will review this type of flu experiment in the future. (keranews.org)
  • CAIRO: A 37-year-old Egyptian woman who tested positive for the bird flu virus has died in a Cairo hospital, bringing the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to13, a government health official said on Friday. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • On Friday, a five-year-old Egyptian boy has tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus, bringing the number of cases in Egypt to 22, the health ministry said in a statement. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • John Jabbour, a WHO official in Cairo, said delays in reporting symptoms were making bird flu more deadly in Egypt, where many people keep birds at home but are often reluctant to disclose that to health officials for fear of sanctions. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Health officials are concerned that the virus could potentially cause a pandemic if it mutates into a new strain that can easily transmit between people. (pyroenergen.com)
  • Bird flu research sparked debate last year among scientists and health officials about how much science to publish and how much to keep secret when it comes to dangerous diseases. (popsci.com)
  • However, animal health experts have their own opinion about the slaughter of animals like dogs, pigs and cats due to the bird flu strain, which is really unusual in Asia where most countries concentrate solely on destroying poultry at the time of the bird flu outbreak. (flutrackers.com)
  • Before bird flu ever reaches a status that would cause major public health problems, its first impact might be on residents' pocketbooks. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • Bird flu hasn't yet reached the United States, but health officials are expecting wild birds to carry it in sometime this year. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • The Bernard Matthews facility is organized by the IUF-affiliated T&G. The union has been working closely with the company and government officials to ensure that worker rights, and worker health and safety, are adequately accounted for in all health measures undertaken by the public authorities, including Tamiflu injections for workers. (iuf.org)
  • Fearing bird flu, she alerted the provincial health department, she said. (rfa.org)
  • The Cambodian Health Ministry recently launched a campaign to educate the public about bird flu and train border agents in how to keep the deadly virus from entering the country. (rfa.org)
  • That adds to the 725,000 birds destroyed since mid-November across the country following nine flu outbreaks , according to a report from the World Organisation for Animal Health released last week. (phys.org)
  • Because of the potential for avian flu to combine with a strain of human influenza, and the fact that scientists believe we are overdue for the next global epidemic, many scientists and government health officials fear that the next outbreak could be worse that the 1918 epidemic that killed millions. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Despite this, health officials said trade would remain closed until specimens taken from all local poultry farms tested negative to AI. (foodnavigator-asia.com)
  • The secretary for Food and Health, Dr Ko Wing-man (third left) chaired an emergency meeting on how to tackle the bird flu outbreak. (foodnavigator-asia.com)
  • The BBC interviewed a top UN health official who warned, "A new flu pandemic could happen at any time and kill up to 150 million people. (postfalls-naturopathic.com)
  • That alarms health officials because seasonal flus cause most of their deaths among infants and bedridden elderly people, but pandemic flus - like the 1918 Spanish flu, and the 1957 and 1968 pandemics - often strike young, healthy people the hardest. (blogspot.com)
  • The world's premier health organization sought to quell fears of a worldwide death toll of 5 million to 150 million people that its infectious disease expert Dr David Nabarro has predicted. (abcmoney.co.uk)
  • The U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center also collects data from wildlife officials on suspected and confirmed bird flu deaths. (phys.org)
  • A senior World Health Organization official said the results of two tests in the brother's case were probably correct. (foxnews.com)
  • While most involve strains that are currently low risk for human health, the sheer number of different types, and their presence in so many parts of the world at the same time, increases the risk of viruses mixing and mutating - and possibly jumping to people. (trust.org)
  • While avian flu has been a prominent public health issue since the 1990s, ongoing outbreaks have never been so widely spread around the world - something infectious disease experts put down to greater resilience of strains currently circulating, rather than improved detection or reporting. (trust.org)
  • The Organization for Animal Health (OIE) says the concurrent outbreaks in birds in recent months are "a global public health concern", and the World Health Organization's director-general warned this week the world "cannot afford to miss the early signals" of a possible human flu pandemic. (trust.org)
  • NEW YORK (AP) - A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, health officials said Wednesday. (findhealthclinics.com)
  • Today the Associated Press is reporting that animal health officials in North Dakota have canceled all shows, public sales, swaps, and exhibitions of poultry and other birds until further notice. (cool987fm.com)
  • The Eurasian H5 avian influenza in hunter-harvested waterfowl was first detected by Clemson University scientists then confirmed by federal testing, and the federal Agriculture Department alerted global health officials, according to The Associated Press. (cool987fm.com)
  • Losing 20 birds is effectively akin to setting the recovery program back by 10 years," said Dr. Hendrik Nollens, vice president of wildlife health for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. (wtrf.com)
  • Health officials in China are scrambling to uncover how multiple members of three families in Shanghai and a young boy and girl from neighboring homes in Beijing became infected with a new strain of bird flu. (healthmedicinet.com)
  • Hartl said an international team of experts was just arriving in China to support Chinese health officials in their investigation. (healthmedicinet.com)
  • The provincial health department is urging doctors in Nova Scotia to be on the lookout for a new form of bird flu. (flutrackers.com)
  • Dr. Fauci says indications are the vaccine could protect human populations if the current bird flu outbreak becomes a pandemic, something health experts and government officials fear may be looming. (voanews.com)
  • Experts point out that an influenza pandemic would not only be a huge, international health crisis, but also would cause social and economic crises, all reasons health and government officials are sounding alarms about the current spread of the avian flu. (voanews.com)
  • As more and more workers got sick, some started to stay home out of fear for their own health. (wamc.org)
  • First the Trump Administration has taken the decision-making away from local health officials. (wamc.org)
  • In a rare acknowledgement this week, a senior health official in the eastern city of Qingdao was quoted by the media as saying half a million people are being infected daily. (indiatimes.com)
  • Last year, U.S. government health officials and the companies that make the vaccine miscalculated, and failed to predict that a new strain called the Fujian influenza A strain would be the most common cause of infection. (newmediaexplorer.org)
  • CDC is collaborating with public health officials in multiple states to investigate a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli serogroup O145 (STEC O145) infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on preliminary genetic sequencing done in country, the Cambodian Ministry of Health has identified these viruses as being H5 clade 2.3.2.1c, which have circulated in Cambodia among birds/poultry for many years. (cdc.gov)
  • The Cambodian Ministry of Health and other global public health officials are leading the investigation into these two human cases with support from in-country CDC staff and a CDC rapid response team. (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. poultry industry has strict health and safety standards, including regular monitoring for bird flu. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC and public health officials in many states investigated 13 multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections linked to contact with backyard poultry. (cdc.gov)
  • The apparently new strain of swine flu has killed at least 81 people and sickened thousands across Mexico. (topnews.in)
  • U.S. officials ordered the manufacture of swine flu virus vaccine and the country proceeded to launch a mass immunization program that saw upwards of 40 million people injected with the vaccine. (blogspot.com)
  • The new reports of dead fowl came just days after Romanian officials said Friday that three domestic ducks died of bird flu last month. (pravda.ru)
  • Two laboratory methods showed evidence of past infection with influenza A/H11N9, a less common virus strain in wild ducks, in these 3 persons. (cdc.gov)
  • In this cross-sectional seroprevalence study, we provide evidence of past influenza A/H11 infection in persons who were routinely, heavily exposed to wild ducks and geese through recreational activities (duck hunting) or through their employment (bird banding). (cdc.gov)
  • According to the English-language Cambodia Daily , officials say up to 3,000 ducks have died over a period of days, but initial testing for bird flu proved negative. (rfa.org)
  • The newspaper also reported that Vietnamese farmers seeking to circumvent stricter controls aimed at containing bird flu had smuggled the sick ducks into Cambodia. (rfa.org)
  • Officials were seen spraying chemicals to disinfect the area and burning dead ducks as she spoke. (rfa.org)
  • Officials confirmed that half of the roughly 2,000 ducks in that area had died suddenly over several days. (rfa.org)
  • Water fowl including ducks and geese, which typically carry the virus, and the raptors and scavengers that feed on them are the most commonly sickened birds, but cases have been confirmed in more than three dozen species. (phys.org)
  • Tests are continuing, and no human bird flu infections have been identified. (rfa.org)
  • Despite its hospitals and morgues being overwhelmed -- and international concern over the low official figures on infections and deaths there -- China insisted Friday that it had been transparent in sharing its Covid-19 data. (indiatimes.com)
  • 43 states have reported West Nile virus infections in people, birds, or mosquitoes. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC also has guidance for clinicians on monitoring, testing, and antiviral treatment for patients with bird flu virus infections. (cdc.gov)
  • USDA officials haven't responded to questions about why they are excluding the data from rehabilitation centers. (phys.org)
  • More than 1,000 wild birds , mostly geese, have been found dead in the Mighan wetland in central Iran, the environmental protection organisation told state news agency IRNA on Monday. (phys.org)
  • We are seeing a tremendous impact from this virus," said Hall, whose Raptor Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, treats roughly 1,000 birds a year. (phys.org)
  • The crisis has prompted poultry farmers in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and surrounding states to embrace heightened biosecurity -- a set of tight sanitation measures that range from changing clothing before entering birdhouses to cleaning vehicles driven onto farms -- to prevent droppings from wild birds, or any other germs, from being tracked into poultry houses. (ibtimes.com)
  • Officials urge countries to strengthen disease surveillance, improve hygiene at poultry farms. (canadianpoultrymag.com)
  • On Monday, the ministry raised the alert to its highest level after the strains from the latest affected farms were found to be highly pathogenic. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • But in this case, there was no evidence that the poultry farms that supplied feed to the mink farms had experienced avian influenza outbreaks, and scientists said that the most likely source of the virus was a wild bird. (stores-sud.com)
  • It was really quite disturbing to us to see how open they were to the environment," Dr. Kuiken said, "and how easy it was for both mammals and wild birds to get into these mink farms and have contact with mink. (stores-sud.com)
  • Scientists know, from studying strains that led to past pandemics, that this kind of switch appears to be involved in enabling a bird flu virus to become transmissible between people. (keranews.org)
  • Botulinum toxins are fascinating, all-natural chemicals-they're made by bacteria-and just last week, a team of scientists discovered a new type of the toxin, as well as a new strain of the bacterium that makes it, Clostridium botulinum . (popsci.com)
  • At a time when chicken and egg prices have already soared, the fresh bird flu outbreaks will prompt the damage to spiral out of control. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Several outbreaks among birds have been reported in Turkey's impoverished eastern region, where many people raise poultry. (foxnews.com)
  • The precise reasons for the unusually large number and sustained nature of bird outbreaks in recent months, and the proliferation of strains, is unclear - although such developments compound the global spreading process. (trust.org)
  • Nearly 40 countries have reported new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry or wild birds since November, according to the WHO. (trust.org)
  • In birds, latest data from the OIE should that outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu have been detected in Britain, Italy, Kuwait and Bangladesh in the last few days alone. (trust.org)
  • Outbreaks have been reported in South Dakota where over 85,0000 birds have recently been euthanized due to influenza. (cool987fm.com)
  • We report serologic evidence of avian influenza infection in 1 duck hunter and 2 wildlife professionals with extensive histories of wild waterfowl and game bird exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • But Osterholm said wild birds could be "shedding" more of the virus in droppings and other secretions, increasing infection risks. (trust.org)
  • People who have job-related or recreational exposures to infected birds or sick or dead mammals are at higher risk of infection and should take appropriate prevention measures . (cdc.gov)
  • I'd be more concerned about the virus in wild bird populations than in packaged meat," she said. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • But it's too soon to know what impact the bird flu will have on bird populations because the outbreak is ongoing and there hasn't been enough time to study it, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service veterinarian Samantha Gibbs, and other experts. (phys.org)
  • The risk of the pathogen to people is low but it spreads very quickly through commercial bird populations. (cool987fm.com)
  • With such a panic surrounding the lethal bird flu, could something as simple as Vitamin C be the answer? (postfalls-naturopathic.com)
  • And if a strain does jump to people, such a mutation may make it far less lethal than it has been to those who have contracted it from birds. (sourcewatch.org)
  • South Korea upgraded its bird flu alert to the second highest yesterday and sent in soldiers to help cull and bury birds amid the worst poultry influenza outbreak in four years. (china.org.cn)
  • Iran has killed hundreds of thousands of birds in recent weeks as avian flu spreads across seven provinces of the country, officials have reported. (phys.org)
  • Since 1997, avian flu strains seem to have infected thousands of birds in 11 countries. (sourcewatch.org)
  • And the news comes just as federal officials are getting ready to lift a moratorium on controversial lab experiments that would deliberately create flu viruses with mutations like these. (keranews.org)
  • Past pandemics caused by novel flu viruses jumping from animals or birds into people have killed millions. (keranews.org)
  • Wild birds and mammals can be infected with bird flu viruses without always appearing sick. (cdc.gov)
  • The so-called bird flu reached the U.S. in February 2022 after wreaking havoc across Europe. (wtrf.com)
  • Top Chinese officials and medical experts had been quietly formulating plans over the preceding weeks to dismantle President Xi Jinping's zero-COVID strategy and gradually reopen the country towards the end of 2022, with the aim of declaring a return to normality in March, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. (indiatimes.com)
  • Officials also say the bird flu is more widespread and affecting more wild bird species compared to the last outbreak in 2015. (phys.org)
  • The number of birds and species and states already in which it has been detected is pretty alarming. (phys.org)
  • The California condor is the only bird species in the U.S. that has been approved for the new emergency-use vaccine, which was administered this summer to condors bred in captivity during a trial at the Los Angeles Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and the Oregon Zoo. (wtrf.com)
  • official efforts to limit or halt fishing of certain species face desperate communities dependent upon the industry. (openthefuture.com)
  • As birds are the natural reservoir host for flu, influenza typically grows well in eggs and maintains a safe distance between species you're using to make the vaccine and the target. (cdc.gov)
  • This strain of flu was determined to have derived from infected birds and it is the world's deadliest recorded outbreak of flu to date. (postfalls-naturopathic.com)
  • In the 19th century, guano from birds native to Peru offered the world's best form of fertilizer -- so good that guano became the subject of imperial ambitions, national laws, and international tension. (openthefuture.com)
  • said in a parliamentary speech that bird flu was invented by Americans who wanted to dominate the world's poultry markets. (sourcewatch.org)
  • In the weeks before the mink farm outbreak, the virus was detected in wild birds in the region. (stores-sud.com)
  • Bird flu is usually spread through flocks through direct contact with an infected bird. (trust.org)
  • Predicting when or where an influenza pandemic may arise, or even which strain will be the culprit is a difficult task (4). (who.int)
  • Recent findings by the Medical Research Council in London reveal that the Spanish flu-the influenza virus that killed more than 20 million people between 1918 and 1920- started in birds . (thetrumpet.com)
  • 3) Is the virus being spread by migrating birds as it was in 1918? (blogspot.com)
  • National Public Radio, on April 2, 2006, ran a segment on how bird flu wreaked havoc in 1918 in Brevig Mission. (blogspot.com)
  • all 16 hemagglutinin (H) and 9 neuraminidase (N) subtypes are found in these wild birds ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • For example, he said, most poultry operations are indoors, so domestic birds have little opportunity to come into contact with wild birds carrying the disease. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • Bird flu is killing an alarming number of bald eagles and other wild birds, with many sick birds arriving at rehabilitation centers unsteady on their talons and unable to fly. (phys.org)
  • But the actual number is likely significantly higher because not every wild bird that dies is tested and the federal tally doesn't include cases recorded by wildlife rehabilitation centers. (phys.org)
  • The latest reported toll is nearly 10 times higher than the 99 confirmed cases in wild birds during the last bird flu outbreak in 2015. (phys.org)
  • It lists 8,536 recent wild bird deaths from avian influenza . (phys.org)
  • She said a great horned owl recovered from the virus, giving her hope that some wild birds may be able to fight it off. (phys.org)
  • Wildlife officials feared that the outbreak's toll on the California condor population could erase any gains made to rebuild the wild population, spurring the efforts to fast-track the vaccine. (wtrf.com)
  • Zoo-bred birds were first released into the wild in 1992 and in the years since have been reintroduced into habitats from which they had disappeared. (wtrf.com)
  • It has taken an unusually heavy toll on wild birds and repeatedly spilled over into mammals, such as foxes, raccoons and bears, that might feed on infected birds. (stores-sud.com)
  • Wild birds and other animals may be especially attracted by the minks' food, a meaty mush or paste that is typically smeared across the top of the animals' wire cages, experts said. (stores-sud.com)
  • Dr. Monne stressed that wild birds were also "victims" of the virus, however, and should not be blamed or targeted. (stores-sud.com)
  • Observe wild birds and mammals only from a distance, if possible. (cdc.gov)
  • If you must handle wild birds and mammals or sick or dead poultry, minimize direct contact by wearing gloves and wash your hands with soap and water after touching them. (cdc.gov)
  • the outbreak strain was detected in 1 ill dog, and a cat became ill after contact with a wild bird. (bvsalud.org)
  • The current outbreak of bird flu began in March, when it was detected in a flock of turkeys on a commercial farm in Minnesota. (ibtimes.com)
  • The ministry had suspected that the Iksan virus that has killed 6,000 chicken since last Sunday was related to the deadly H5NI strain that has killed 140 people worldwide. (flutrackers.com)
  • Several Web sites about bird flu, including the National Chicken Council site, reassure consumers that proper cooking of chicken and thorough handwashing after handling meat eliminates chances of catching the virus, even if poultry is contaminated. (thepoultrysite.com)
  • The so called bird flu, the chicken disease that has killed a wopping 59 people in the world, the disease that cannot (and will not) be transmitted from human to human, but is going to sweep the world. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Antibodies found in early results of a historic new vaccine trial are expected to give endangered California condors at least partial protection from the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history. (wtrf.com)
  • U.S. researchers have announced they have developed an experimental vaccine for the avian, or bird, flu virus. (voanews.com)
  • Despite a small number of human deaths in different countries over the years, the disease is mostly a risk to other birds, spreading rapidly and killing large numbers. (phys.org)
  • Official estimates put the death toll at 60 over the last two years, but experts say that many deaths could have gone unreported as China has yet to open its doors for inspections by the WHO. (abcmoney.co.uk)
  • The last bird flu epidemic that began to sweep the country in November last year resulted in the culling of a record 37 million poultry, with estimated damages reaching 1 trillion won. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • She was initially treated for seasonal flu after her family denied she had come into contact with sick birds. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • The children helped to raise poultry on a small farm in the eastern town of Dogubeyazit, close to Iranian border, and were in close contact with sick birds. (foxnews.com)
  • But all poultry producers need to be on the lookout for sick birds or a drop in egg production. (cool987fm.com)
  • Not being able to visually identify sick birds means that the virus can silently spread for a longer period of time amongst the human population. (flutrackers.com)
  • We report a multistate outbreak of human salmonellosis associated with songbirds, resulting from direct handling of sick and dead birds or indirect contact with contaminated birdfeeders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Backyard poultry can carry Salmonella germs that can make people sick, even when the birds look healthy and clean. (cdc.gov)
  • Six of the outbreak strains that made people sick were identified in samples collected from poultry. (cdc.gov)
  • The fear is that if it mutates in a way that lets it spread more easily, the virus will sweep around the globe and take a heavy toll, because people's immune systems haven't ever been exposed to this type of flu before. (keranews.org)
  • South Korea is investigating possible causes of the spread such as migrating birds and transport workers who have been moving around the affected sites and other parts of the country. (china.org.cn)
  • Veterinary officials were monitoring the situation closely in hopes of preventing any further spread of the avian illness, he said, speculating that some form of cholera might be to blame. (rfa.org)
  • Anyone involved with poultry production from backyard birds to a commercial operation should review and understand how the virus could spread to their birds, and prevent the exposure before it happens. (cool987fm.com)
  • But its spread within families and neighborhoods has flamed fears about possible human-to-human transmission. (healthmedicinet.com)
  • The European Union has declared the spread of bird flu from Asia into the EU as a global threat requiring international cooperation, saying western Europe is ill prepared to deal with an influenza emergency. (sourcewatch.org)
  • The outbreak "confirmed a fear that I had" that the virus could spread efficiently among mammals, said Dr. Thijs Kuiken, a veterinary pathologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands. (stores-sud.com)
  • The strain is highly pathogenic, meaning it spreads and kills quickly. (ibtimes.com)
  • With bird migration in full swing, the domestic flock of birds in North Dakota is vulnerable to the escalating cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). (cool987fm.com)
  • This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported an outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu strain in a turkey flock in Indiana. (cool987fm.com)
  • And there is a genetic process whereby the genetic material from both flus could be exchanged in such a way to create a new strain of flu that is highly transmissible and highly pathogenic -- that is, can cause a person to become very ill and even die. (voanews.com)
  • It turns out that three small mutations made the fragment bind far more strongly to receptors found on human cells than to receptors from bird cells. (keranews.org)
  • Egypt has the highest known cluster of human bird flu cases outside Asia, with 21 known human cases since the virus first surfaced in Egyptian poultry a year ago. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • The fatality rate from bird flu this winter is significantly higher than it was between March and May 2006, before the country witnessed a 5-month warm-weather lull in human cases and when fear in Egypt over bird flu was rampant. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • In Turkey, the number of confirmed cases of human bird flu has risen to 14, and scores more have sought treatment for symptoms of the disease. (rfa.org)
  • The new strain contains gene sequences from North American and Eurasian swine flus, North American bird flu and North American human flu. (blogspot.com)
  • “We don’t think there’s sustained human-to-human transmission, because the only instances where there might have been human-to-human transmission are between two close family members ,†said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl , explaining that the family members and neighboring children may have been exposed to the same infected bird. (healthmedicinet.com)
  • The big fear is that the more people who are exposed to it, the greater chance that an individual will simultaneously have the bird flu and a human flu. (voanews.com)
  • New research shows that this bird flu currently lacks the protein key to unlock certain cells in the human upper respiratory tract, preventing it from spreading via a sneeze or a cough. (sourcewatch.org)
  • On Saturday, a dead swan found on a beach in the Black Sea port of Constanta similarly tested positive for bird flu antibodies. (pravda.ru)
  • Early results indicate that when 10 condors were vaccinated with half a milliliter (0.016 fluid ounces) on two occasions - an initial injection and a booster administered 21 days later - 60% of the birds showed measurable antibodies expected to protect them from avian flu after exposure. (wtrf.com)
  • People infected with bird flu exhibit symptoms of extreme Vitamin C deficiency. (postfalls-naturopathic.com)
  • But so far, nearly all of the people infected with the disease - more than 100, including some 60 who died - got the sickness directly from birds. (sourcewatch.org)
  • The fungus ignores current strains of wheat with fungal resistance, because it initially faced monocultures of wheat with single markers for resistance, allowing for easy mutation and replication. (openthefuture.com)
  • A study released on March 17, 2020 revealed the current strain of coronavirus was more "stable" on plastic and metals than on softer fabrics including cardboard. (centralbanking.com)