Tag: flu

Bird flu is rampant in animals. Humans ignore it at our own peril

Mark Naniot remembers 2022 as the summer from hell. As the co-founder of Wild Instincts animal rescue in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, Naniot and his team spent the season sweating in gloves, gowns, smocks and masks and going through what felt like endless rounds of disinfection as they moved between the cages of the sick and injured […]

A Combined Flu and COVID-19 Shot May Be Coming

Credit – Getty Images As much as we’d like to think that COVID-19 is behind us, the virus isn’t going anywhere. Health officials continue to recommend that people get vaccinated for both COVID-19 and influenza every year for the foreseeable future, and high hospitalization rates for COVID-19 in the past winter were a reminder that […]

US to research possible respiratory spread of bird flu in cows

By Leah Douglas, P.J. Huffstutter and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -U.S. federal and state agencies are planning research into potential respiratory spread of bird flu among dairy cattle, according to a Reuters interview with Michigan state agriculture and public health officials. Scientists and government officials hope the research will guide efforts to contain the virus and […]

What to know about the first human case of H5N2 bird flu

Is there a new strain of bird flu to be worried about? On Wednesday, the World Health Organization reported the first confirmed human case of the H5N2 type of bird flu in a 59-year-old man in Mexico who died in April. The case adds to growing anxiety about the risk of bird flu spreading among […]

Bird flu outbreak reported in Minnesota dairy herd, the state’s first

By P.J. Huffstutter and Leah Douglas (Reuters) -The ongoing U.S. outbreak of avian flu in dairy cattle reached Minnesota on Thursday as the state announced its first infected herd. More than 80 dairy herds have been infected with the virus across 11 states since late March, and three dairy workers have tested positive for the […]