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Opinion: Bird flu has spread to humans — are we too late to prevent the next pandemic?

Mon, 2024-06-10 09:47 — mike kraft

The bird flu outbreak has spread to humans — are we too late to prevent the next pandemic? Since March 29, there has been a major dairy cow outbreak with 66 infected herds across nine U.S. states. ckulat The Hill

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EU to purchase avian flu vaccines for 15 countries.

Mon, 2024-06-10 09:39 — mike kraft

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Overview COVID, Bird Flu, Polio cases

Fri, 2024-06-07 17:53 — mike kraft

Quick Takes: US COVID-19 levels, H5N1, and Polio The last data from the CDC show upticks in early COVID-19 indicators, but severity indicators remain unchanged from the previous week. CIDRAP

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Asian flu reaches Minnesota, more than 80 dairy herds now reported infected across 11 states

Fri, 2024-06-07 08:52 — mike kraft

Avian flu said to hit over 40 cattle at Minnesota farm: ‘Only a matter of time’ Over 80 dairy herds across 11 US states – and three workers – reported to have been infected since March The Guardian

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Because bird flu is infecting dairy cattle, U.S. FDA asks some states to curb sales of raw milk

Fri, 2024-06-07 08:44 — mike kraft

With bird flu infecting dairy cattle, FDA asks some states to curb sales of raw milk | CNN As the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads through dairy cattle, the US Food and Drug Administration is asking states to take more steps to protect the public from the risks of raw milk.In an open letter posted to the agency’s website on Friday, it urged states to warn the public more strongly about the dangers of raw milk and to test herds that produce it for sale. Brenda Goodman CNN <

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Opinion: The U.S. Needs A Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies

Thu, 2024-06-06 17:47 — mike kraft

The United States Needs A Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies The absence of a comprehensive national playbook for developing and deploying testing has hindered the United States’ ability to rapidly suppress recent biological emergencies (for example, the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of mpox). We describe here the Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies, a national testing playbook we developed. It includes a set of decisions and actions for US officials to take at specific times during infectious disease emergencies to implement testing rapidly and to ensure that available testing meets clinical and public health needs.

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Bird flu first known human fatality reported in Mexico --WHO

Thu, 2024-06-06 10:19 — mike kraft

First-ever human case of H5N2 bird flu reported in Mexico, WHO says | CNN Even as the United States grapples with an outbreak of H5N1 flu in dairy cattle, the World Health Organization has announced the first known human infection with a different strain, H5N2, in a person in Mexico who died of complications of their infection. Brenda Goodman CNN

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Bird Flu: Finland to offer vaccine to select groups of workers

Wed, 2024-06-05 10:29 — mike kraft

Finland to offer bird flu vaccine to select groups of people, a possible global first Finland is set to potentially become the first country to offer bird flu vaccine to people at risk of exposure to the virus. Andrew Joseph STAT

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The vaccine campaign will be limited, with doses set to be available to groups including poultry farmers, veterinarians, scientists who study the virus, and people who work on fur farms housing animals like mink and fox and where there have been outbreaks.

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U.S. will make millions of birds flu vaccine doses to prepare for possible pandemic

Tue, 2024-06-04 09:45 — mike kraft

US will make millions of bird flu vaccines this summer As the H5N1 avian flu continues to spread among dairy cows in the United States, nearly 5 million doses of flu vaccine are now being prepared for possible use in humans. Robin Foster Medical Xpress

Since the outbreak in livestock began this spring, bird flu has been confirmed in three humans who worked on dairy farms in Texas and Michigan and health experts are concerned the virus could mutate to the point where it could spread easily among humans.

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Opinion: Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming and the need for better monitoring

Mon, 2024-06-03 11:13 — mike kraft

The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells us that the current bird flu situation is at a dangerous inflection point.

The virus is adapting in predictable ways that increase its risk to humans, reflecting our failure to contain it early on. The solutions to this brewing crisis — such as comprehensive testing — have been there all along, and they’re becoming only more important. If we keep ignoring the warning signs we have only ourselves to blame.

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