A year into the outbreak of avian flu, there is a continuing threat from the virus to poultry flocks and dairy herds, and to a lesser degree humans.
Since March 2024, the avian flu — also called bird flu or H5N1 — has infected almost 1,000 dairy herds across 17
Continue Reading One year after hitting dairy herds, bird flu continues to devastate poultry flocks
As confirmations of the spread of bird flu in dairy herds and poultry flocks in the United States continue to mount, the Public Health Agency of Canada has secured 500,000 additional doses of a human vaccine to protect people most at risk of contracting the virus.
People most at risk
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There’s been no person-to-person spread, and the human health risk remains low, but some measures of the bird flu do keep creeping up, according to recent reports by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For example, the CDC confirmed a third human case of H5 bird flu in
Continue Reading H5N1 bird flu continues to do its thing
Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, has extended to Sept. 1 the bird flu emergency in his state.
The governor is responding to the avian flu outbreak in Colorado’s Weld County. Weld County is often listed as a Top 10 county for agricultural production and is usually the only high-value
Continue Reading Colorado continues working with avian flu as an emergency
At a time when friends don’t let friends drink raw milk and some world-renowned scientists with deep expertise in the H5N1 virus think the situation is serious enough that it should be illegal to sell milk products that are not pasteurized, not much is happening.
The raw milk business is
Continue Reading Risk warnings are not pausing raw milk consumption