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It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...
The University of Maryland and USDA Agricultural Research Service researchers have secured $648,881 to develop a nasal vaccine that can prevent H5N1 bird flu in dairy cows. The funding comes from the ...
Health officials in Mexico say a 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is the country’s first confirmed human case of bird flu.
A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...
The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced last week bird flu struck a second backyard flock of chickens in the County.
The Delmarva poultry industry remains on high alert despite no new cases of avian influenza being detected in commercial ...
According to the Department of Agriculture, wholesale egg prices dropped throughout the country in March. But retailers have not lowered the prices customers pay at the same rate.
Bird flu wasn’t on Tim Hanson’s mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. “You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food,” he said. “It was finely ...
In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...
an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told us in an email. Meanwhile, Kennedy left out important context about the risk of bird flu. And he ...