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Bird Flu

Consumer & Healthcare

Trump team weighs pulling funds for Moderna bird flu vaccine

A sign at supermarket Trader Joe's hangs by cartons of eggs in Merrick, New York, Feb 10, 2025. Shipments of eggs to the US from Turkey began this month and will continue until July.
International

Turkey to export 15,000 tonnes of eggs to US to ease bird flu disruptions

Genetic sequencing has shown that the H5N1 virus that infected the Louisiana patient was different from the version of the virus detected in many dairy herds and poultry farms around the country.
International

US records its first human death from bird flu

The USDA currently only requires testing of lactating dairy cattle moving across state lines, a requirement laid out in its only other federal bird flu order issued in April.
International

US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply

As bad as the Biden administration has been on pandemic prevention, of course, it's about to be replaced by something far worse.
Opinion & Features

A bird flu pandemic would be one of the most foreseeable catastrophes in history

H5N1 first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an increase in the number of infected mammals.
International

WHO wants bird flu surveillance stepped up

Oceania is the last region of the world free of the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b avian influenza that has killed hundreds of millions of birds.
International

Australia commits A$95 million to protect against looming bird flu threat

FILE PHOTO: A person holds a test tube labelled "Bird Flu", in this picture illustration, January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Consumer & Healthcare

Drugmaker Sinergium to share bird flu vaccine data globally, says WHO

FILE PHOTO: A sign marks the headquarters of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine maker Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Consumer & Healthcare

US awards Moderna US$176 million to produce bird flu vaccine

Immunising cows would curb the bird flu risk to farmworkers, and to other cows, and limit the opportunities for the virus to keep spreading and evolving, experts say. But officials have been hesitant to do so.
International

A bird flu pandemic in people? Here’s what it might look like

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