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Bird flu has been detected in mammals on the Texas panhandle, including skunks, raccoons, and foxes. Cats have also been identified with tests that came back positive for bird flu. While we have told domestic pet cats have been infected and died of bird flu, the inclusion of skunks and raccoons is new. 11 Cats […]

The public’s ignorance about food safety and vaccination is now a hindrance to the prevention of bird flu. While many mainstream media outlets have taken a break from fear-mongering this outbreak, others are now sinking low, as they did with COVID-19, and blaming the “ignorant” public for the virus’s spread. In an editorial in the American […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested that the next pandemic could strike the globe tomorrow. This fearmongering appears to be an effort to boost funding for the WHO’s “global response” to a contagion. In a statement on Monday, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged governments to invest in health security and finalize the […]

Mexico has reported its first human bird flu infection. The infection was confirmed on Tuesday in a three-year-old girl living in the northern state of Durango, who remains hospitalized in serious condition. Durango’s economy is heavily reliant on agriculture, primarily its cattle industry. “So far there is no evidence of sustained person-to-person transmission,” the health […]

Bird flu could be on the cusp of transmitting to humans, according to disease forecasters. Recent animal outbreaks of a subtype called H5N1 have been particularly troubling to scientists, and the warning of avian influenza’s potential jump to humans remains ongoing. Although human infections from H5N1 have been relatively rare, there have been a little more than 900 […]

The state of California has reported its first cases of human bird flu. Health officials in the state have confirmed the first documented cases of bird flu in humans at Central Valley farms where infected dairy cows were detected. These cases of bird flu are linked to dairy farms. Thirty-seven workers and one child are affected, all […]

The Trump administration seeks to mass-vaccinate birds to prevent avian influenza. However, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has said that vaccinating the nation’s poultry flocks against pervasive H5N1 bird flu could turn them into “mutation factories.” “All of my agencies advise against vaccination of birds, because if you vaccinate with a leaky vaccine, […]