By Stephen Sorace“The White House is working toward a plan to control the avian flu, which will help lower egg prices that have skyrocketed due to inflation and how the Biden administration “killed all the chickens” to contain the spread of the disease, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.Hassett appeared on CBS’ “Face
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By Alexander Tin “Ohio’s health department confirmed Saturday that a farmer in the state was discharged from the hospital after being sickened by bird flu, marking the fourth American to have been hospitalized with the H5N1 virus.“The individual had respiratory symptoms. He was previously hospitalized and has since been released,” a spokesperson for Ohio’s health
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By Amy Maxmen“Flu has been brutal this season. The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October. At the same time, the bird flu outbreak continues to infect cattle and farmworkers. But CDC analyses that would inform people about these situations are delayed,
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By Mary Kekatos“”I think the concern is that we’re having multiple strains that are being transmitted from birds to cattle and then from cattle to humans,” Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Health told ABC News. “And the more that that occurs, there’s a higher risk of
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By Adrianna Rodriguez“A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it.Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 veterinarians for H5N1, or bird flu, antibodies, which would indicate if they had a recent infection.”to read the full article go tohttps://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/13/bird-flu-symptoms-cdc/78513646007/
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By Leif Greiss “St. Luke’s is getting ahead on this because they would rather be ready for a threat that never comes than be unprepared and unready if bird flu comes to the Lehigh Valley and becomes widespread, Jahre said.“The government is not the cavalry. You can’t rely on the government coming to save you.
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By Nicholas Florko “Bird flu has now spread to cow herds across the country, led to the euthanization of tens of millions of domesticated poultry, sickened dozens of people in the United States, and killed one. The virus is not known to spread between humans, which has prevented the outbreak from exploding into the next
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