Bird Flu

A teenager in British Columbia has become the first person in Canada to test positive for bird flu, authorities said Saturday. This person is receiving treatment in a children’s hospital for H5 avian flu, the provincial health department…
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A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia’s Victoria state said on Tuesday, taking the total number of infected facilities in the country to 10. Australia…
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An unusual number of cats have died across Poland, authorities said. More than half of those tested harbored the strain of bird flu known as H5N1, the World Health Organization said. Of 47 samples tested — including one wild cat in…
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Cambodian health authorities have said there was no human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the case of a father and daughter who caught the virus. The 11-year-old girl died last Wednesday and her father tested positive two days later,…
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After the fatal onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic, bird flu has been detected in several districts of Maharashtra, intensifying the fears of the virus spreading further inside the state. After Thane, the samples from Palghar have tested…
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