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This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.
So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...
Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...
Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...
At least 388 people have died from the flu in Washington this season—making it the deadliest one the state has seen in years.
The study’s results indicated the cumulative incidence of influenza – or the number of new cases divided by the total number ...
The Trump Administration's zeal for rounding up and deporting those migrants is making efforts to combat bird flu harder as ...
More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.
Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...
The CDC notes that the ... experts say that isn’t the case. “I think a lot of people have been acclimatized to relatively mild flu seasons the last several years, because the Covid-19 pandemic ...
A child died of pertussis and the flu in January in South Dakota, while an adult died in Idaho of pertussis in February, NBC News reported. In Michigan, there have been 497 cases this year.