A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu after having contact with sick and dying birds suspected of carrying the virus, state health officials announced Friday. It is the first human H5N1 case detected in Louisiana. For now, the case is considered a “presumptive” positive until testing is confirmed by the Centers for […]
December 13, 2024 | bird flu, H5N1, Health, Science | No comments
So, the ultimate goal of the USDA is to eliminate cattle as a reservoir. When the Agency announced it was planning for this program, it noted that there were two candidate vaccines in trials. Until those are validated, it plans to use the standard playbook for handling emerging infections: contact tracing and isolation. And it […]
December 6, 2024 | Biology, bird flu, Flu virus, H5N1, Health, Infectious disease, medicine, Science | No comments
“We are shut down due to testing results showing DEAD VIRUS PIECES in some of our samples. Nothing alive,” McAfee said, despite the fact that testing for live virus is still pending. “We are testing and will have more data soon,” he added. Another document McAfee sent was an assessment from Margaret E. (Peg) Coleman, […]
December 3, 2024 | bird flu, H5N1, Health, Infectious disease, Raw Farm, raw milk, Science | No comments
Pasteurization The milk-related risk of H5N1 is only from raw milk; pasteurized milk does not contain live virus and is safe to drink. Pasteurization, which heats milk to a specific temperature for a specified amount of time, kills a variety of bacteria and viruses, including bird flu. Influenza viruses, generally, are considered susceptible to heat […]
November 25, 2024 | bird flu, California, H5N1, Health, Infectious disease, influenza, pasteurization, raw milk, Science | No comments