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Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff ... it would take a ...
Washington isn’t sleeping anymore
At least that’s how it seems, as civil servants toss and turn and Elon Musk’s DOGE team pulls all-nighters.
Harvard Medical School3d
Are We on the Cusp of a Major Bird Flu Outbreak?
Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...
MIT Technology Review25d
A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.
Meta is building a model ... Cats might have spread bird flu to humans—and vice versa. That’s according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which published the ...
The New York Times29d
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding
the administration has blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from publishing scientific information on the threat of bird flu to humans. The lawsuit filed on Monday involved a ...
CNN9d
The haphazard nihilism of America’s new Department of Government Efficiency
They got rid of the government agricultural workers responsible for fighting bird flu — which has sent ... to the most prominent US experts on the disease. “We won’t be perfect.
Where has bird flu been reported in the US? See map of 70 cases
There are 70 confirmed cases of the bird flu among humans in the U.S., as of Tuesday. The CDC said the current public health ...
Prevention14d
Scientists Warn Bird Flu May Spread Between People and Cats
Doctors say it’s possible to get bird flu from pets, but unlikely to be an issue for most Americans. The study, which was published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC ...
2nd bird flu virus detected in western US. What does this mean for prevention?
After a different strain of bird flu was recently found in cattle for the first time, experts reveal what this means in our fight against the virus.
ABC News25d
2nd bird flu virus detected in western US. What does this mean for prevention?
Shortly after, Nevada reported its first human bird flu case in a dairy farm worker, which was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to also be the different strain.
New York Post25d
Bird flu spread from animals to veterinarians — and they didn’t know they were infected: study
A new study shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians. The study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention echoes two smaller ones ...
Wicked Local19d
A new vaccine for bird flu has conditional approval for chickens. What to know
The current H5N1(bird flu) strain is a dangerous one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are other nations that protect poultry against H5N1, including China ...