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Avian Influenza: What Infectious Disease Physicians Need to Know
Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...
Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza
The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...
RFK Jr. Wants to Let Bird Flu Spread on Farms. Meanwhile the Pandemic Response Office Is Down to 1 Staffer
Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.
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With Bird Flu, the Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...
H5N1 strain of bird flu has potential to become pandemic, says UK expert
The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...
As bird flu continues to spread, Trump administration sidelines key pandemic preparedness office
The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, ...
Bird flu tops list of viruses likely to cause another pandemic - so authorities are on high alert
As avian influenza is found in a sheep in Yorkshire, the close contact humans have with domesticated animals is an extra ...
New carrier birds brought avian flu to Europe and the Americas
Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...
The Bird Flu Virus Is Mutating Fast – And Scientists Say Our Vaccines May Not Be Enough
H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...
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The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
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Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza
Today, as we stand on the brink of an avian influenza pandemic that could be significantly worse than COVID-19, too much of the world seems unaware, unprepared or largely disengaged. Globally ...
Bird flu ‘has potential to become pandemic’, warn health officials
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...