US health officials reported Saturday the first known case of a person infected with the new mpox strain in the country. The person acquired mpox while traveling to east Africa and was treated for a m
It started on farms in Kansas. At first, it was severe. Then it wasn't. During the winter of 1917, a mystery flu started making locals sicker than doctors had ever seen. One of the doctors tried to so
A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, in what is believed to be Canada’s first human case of bird flu. “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underl
The newly elected premier of New Brunswick has called on Canada’s federal government to aid in a “full, open scientific investigation” into the mysterious brain illness that has plagued the province f
Lisa Schnirring October 28, 2024 Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) NIAID/Flickr cc In experiments designed to learn more about the threat from the H5N1 avian flu virus spreading from cows to people, research
A pig in Oregon has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. It's the first time the virus has been detected in swine in the United States. Test results
It's been five years since rangers on England's Farne Islands could conduct a survey of puffins living there — and they were delighted to find good news in the 2024 results. The population, which had
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Don't panic. Listen. Oct 5 READ IN APP We were lied to, again. A recent news story confirms what many of us suspected about bird flu in cows, that mortality rates run between 10 and 15 percent, not th
A man looks at eggs displayed at a supermarket in Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 2022. Jim Vondruska/Reuters New York CNN — Supermarket prices are no longer skyrocketing – except, of course, if you’re b
After three more herds in California’s Central valley tested positive for bird flu, questions have been raised about the whether true extent of the outbreak in the US is much wider than recognized, gi
The first case of a person to contract bird flu after no known contact with animals is raising questions about the possibility of human-to-human transmission and highlighting the complicated relations
Microbes that cause disease in humans can travel thousands of miles on high-level winds, scientists have revealed for the first time. The winds studied carried a surprising diversity of bacteria and f
A person in Missouri with no known animal contact has tested positive for H5 bird flu, the state’s department of health and senior services said Friday. It’s the first time a patient in the US outbrea
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KENSINGTON, N.H. - A New Hampshire man is fighting for his life because of a mosquito bite. Fifty-four-year-old Joe Casey of Kensington has tested positive for three mosquito-borne viruses, including
Two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus, according to health officials. A third person in Wisconsin has been hospitalized because of the mo
The US is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with Covid, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues spreading on American farms and raising alarms that it could muta
A Palestinian baby in Gaza has been partly paralysed from polio in the first case there for 25 years, amid preparations for a difficult and dangerous vaccination campaign in the midst of war. The head
A mosquito collected to test for mosquito-borne diseases. Getty | Jon Cherry A small town in Massachusetts is urging residents to stay indoors in the evenings after the spread of a dangerous mosquito-
Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the country from Africa. The department of disease control said laboratory tests on t
Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after the UN chief, António Guterres, called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundred
Well, it's back. Barely a day after the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern, its strongest warning, mpox has turned up in Europe and elsewhere. Is thi
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Following over a month of warnings, Gaza recorded it
Sweden confirmed its first case of the more contagious variant of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, marking the first time it has been found outside Africa. The person was in
The US announced its fourth human case of bird flu, in a Colorado dairy worker, on Wednesday, as officials work to expand the availability of potential vaccines and commercial tests and open up financ
Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and
There is not enough testing for bird flu among people and animals in the US, says Dr Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – but he is wary o
June 7 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease
The outbreak of avian flu in US cattle herds was reported to have reached Minnesota on Thursday when the state’s board of animal health said a farmer had reported more than 40 cows with signs of fever
In January, a man living on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula died of Alaskapox. Pictured is Bear Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park on Sept. 1, 2015, in Seward, Alaska. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
A Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu – the second human case associated with an outbreak in US dairy cows, after a case emerged in Texas earlier this spring. The new patient had mi
CDC urges people to get vaccinated amid resurgence of mpoxThe disease is transmitted through close contact, usually skin to skin rubbing with someone who has the rash. • May 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM • Upd
Scientists have confirmed that, for the very first time, a human has contracted the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus — not from a bird, but a dairy cow. The confirmation was published in an art
Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products — and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows. Since March 25, when th
Serious gaps in testing animals and people could be obscuring the true rate of avian influenza cases in the US and make it difficult to understand how the H5N1 virus is spreading – and how to stop it,
Over the past four years, a silent pandemic has been raging. One in which the death toll is believed to number in the hundreds of millions, but which has received remarkably little attention until now
Avian flu typically spreads by infecting wild birds and moving along migration routes, but the virus currently running rampant in the US is about to be transported across the Atlantic by plane. This c
Results of tests run by the Food and Drug Administration show that pasteurization is working to kill off bird flu in milk and other dairy products, the agency says. "In addition to preliminary results
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