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Opinion: A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History

Almost five years after Covid blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out.

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Bird flu confirmed at 62 more California dairy farms as virus strikes more poultry

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed 62 more avian flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, all involving California herds. The latest detections lift the states total since the end of August to 398 and the national total to 612.


 

California is the nations largest dairy producer, and outbreaks in the Central Valley have now affected nearly one-third of the states estimated 1,300 herd.

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Suspected bird flu case repored in California in child

California health department reports possible bird flu case in child

Nov 19 (Reuters) - California's public health department reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on Tuesday, but said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus and that the child's family members tested negative.
 
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CDC's Bird flu response update

In this week's spotlight, CDC highlights new resources for employers of farm workers, the results of a radio media tour for journalists reporting on flu, and findings from genetic sequencing of some of the avian influenza A(H5) viruses from recent cases among people with exposures to infected animals in Washington and California.

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Canadian teenager's critical condition with presumptive bird flu raises concern about virus' possible wider impact

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“This case is very concerning for a number of reasons,” says Rick Bright, an American immunologist and vaccine researcher and a U.S. government health official from 2016 to 2020. “It’s in an otherwise healthy teenager. Like a similar case in Missouri, there’s no clear source for infection and no direct farm connection.”

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