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Bird Flu May Now Be Airborne, Scientists Say Health officials maintain that the public health risk for the general public remains low Vanessa Etienne Tue, August 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM PDT 3 min read ...
The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to new research from the CDC.
A research study from the United States suggests that bird flu could have spread amongst cattle through the air or contaminated wastewater at dairy farms.
H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...
Philips Respironics updated the use instructions for several ventilators due to the risk of failure in the ventilator inoperative alarm which can cause therapy interruption or loss. Eight deaths and ...
The CDC deactivates its H5N1 bird flu emergency response due to declining infections and an absence of human cases since February, with the agency now saying the public health risk is low.
It is the stuff of science fiction: scientists tamper with a killer bird flu virus and create something much worse. But what has been created in a Rotterdam laboratory is not fiction. It is deadly ...
The bird flu virus that has beset dairy farms since early last year may be spreading through the air in so-called milking parlors and through contaminated wastewater, as well as from milking ...
Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms ...
With no person-to-person spread, the health risk to humans remaining low, and the 15-month emergency human response to H5N1 avian flu over, this summer’s ...
Spanning data from 2004 through 2024, the global review of research papers found 607 bird flu infections in cats, including 302 associated deaths, from 18 countries and in 12 types of cat species ...