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How to Protect Pets and Backyard Chickens from Bird Flu
As bird flu outbreaks continue to affect animals, experts answer questions about keeping pets and their owners healthy
What is bird flu? Here's everything you need to know about the virus affecting chickens and dairy cattle
The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry workers.
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How to protect your cat from bird flu
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Vaccinating chickens could help contain bird flu — and egg prices. Here’s why it’s rare
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for soaring egg prices.
Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices but US remains hesitant
The move has been delayed in part because of concerns it could jeopardize chicken exports worth billions of dollars a year.
Vaccinating chickens could help egg prices but U.S. remains hesitant
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.
Vaccinating chickens could help cut soaring egg prices, experts say
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans to spend $100 million to study bird flu vaccines to fight the disease in concert with meat chicken, egg and turkey groups.
Can the US vaccinate chickens to prevent bird flu?
Chicken meat producers remain the most resistant to vaccines because of concerns they could harm meat exports, which totaled nearly $4.7 billion last year.
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Carl Zimmer on Covid, singing, and going ‘Air-Borne’
While covering Covid, science writer Carl Zimmer learned how little we know about air and how it affects disease transmission ...
Trump's Plan To Combat Bird Flu Will Ensure More Bird Flu | Opinion
Three years into the epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 170 million farmed birds and caused 70 known human ...
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We’re Running Out of Chances to Stop Bird Flu
There was a checklist to follow: the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 224-page Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Response Plan, known as the Red Book. For 15 years, the Red Book has laid out ...
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HHS review of a vaccine contract sparks worries about preparedness for a potential bird flu pandemic
Emergency response planners in the federal government have long hoped to use the same approach if the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus ever triggers a pandemic. But news that the Trump administration ...