Can't find eggs at your local grocery store? You're not alone. The recent H5N1 bird flu has led to the culling of millions of ...
Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.
In April 2024, as his first hens tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus, Herbruck turned to the ...
H5N1 isn’t going away anytime soon and could become a pandemic. Here are some tips to help you understand your risk ...
On the flip side, Dr. Simpson there is a way to prevent this. “The good news is that most of the time, chickens show that they have symptoms before they even lay an egg,” he reveals. “They get sick, ...
More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the outbreak began in January 2022. One person has been killed.
So, the CDC says if eggs are cooked properly, they are safe to eat. This means cooking eggs to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit, which kills bacteria and viruses, including bird flu.
Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.
By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...
That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...