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Bird flu alert in Canada as teen tests positive; officials launch investigation
While human infections are uncommon, recent cases in humans with no known animal exposure have rais…
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Bird flu was detected in a pig, and it could be a tipping point threatening more human transmission
Pigs are mixing bowls for bird flu and human flu viruses, increasing the risk of mutations that hel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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WHO confirms human case of bird flu in India! H9N2 virus detected in a four-year child in West Bengal
The World Health Organisation has confirmed the human case of bird flu in India, after the H9N2 vir…
ANI
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Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again.
H5N1 avian flu virus is spreading in cattle herds. Former surgeon general Jerome Adams, who served …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Bird flu particles were found in pasteurized milk. A former surgeon general says he isn't changing what he eats.
Store-bought milk may contain genetic fragments of H5N1 bird flu virus, but a former surgeon genera…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Why 4 new bird flu developments have experts worried about the virus
The H5N1 bird flu virus is changing and getting more opportunities to adapt to humans. Experts are …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A new study suggests a culprit in bird flu's rapid spread through US cattle, and how to stop it
Raw milk is a hazard to cows, workers, and consumers, a new study suggests. There a few things dair…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New variant of H5N1 bird flu spreads to marine mammals, heightening concerns for human transmission
Alarmingly, all samples from Argentina, encompassing sea lions, fur seals, and terns, tested positi…
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What to know about H5N1 bird flu in humans as a girl dies in Cambodia and her father tests positive
The strain of bird flu that killed the girl, H5N1, can transmit between humans but it's rare, exper…
Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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A prison inmate in a pre-release work program was the first recorded human case of the bird flu in the US
The virus outbreak is highly contagious to birds — so much so that almost 27 million chickens and t…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Unvaccinated teen in Los Angeles tests positive for a co-infection of COVID-19 and the flu now being dubbed 'flurona'
The LA County Department of Public Health told the Los Angeles Times that co-infections are "exceed…
Azmi Haroun
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I survived swine flu as a teenager and it taught me one crucial lesson about life during an epidemic: Don't panic
An alert email was issued to all of the (now panicked) parents at my high school. I missed more tha…
Caroline Hroncich
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I came down with the flu while on board a cruise ship as a teenager and was quarantined for 24 hours - here's what my experience was like
On February 1, a man tested positive for coronavirus six days after leaving the Diamond Princess, f…
Alyse Kalish
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Swans are spinning in circles, bleeding from their nostrils, and collapsing dead amid an outbreak of avian flu in Europe
The disease is not believed to pose a threat to humans, and there is currently no suggestion it cou…
Will Martin
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134 pregnant women were diagnosed with the coronavirus, but so far none of their babies have tested positive
Most research on pregnant women so far suggests they can't pass COVID-19 to their babies in utero. …
Anna Medaris Miller
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Taiwanese Woman Sickened By Bird Flu Virus Never Before Seen In Humans
While one Taiwanese woman getting sick doesn't seem like something to worry about, we never know wh…