Bird flu has reached Austin's wildlife. Here's what you need to know.
One U.S. person, a Louisiana resident, has died after contracting bird flu since the beginning of 2024. There have been around 950 confirmed cases of bird flu in humans internationally since 2003, and around half those people have died, according to World Health Organization data.
Bird flu is a type of Influenza that primary affects birds,” says Richard Wallace, an Infectious Disease Health Expert at UT ...
Researchers at Texas Biomed identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is ...
Texas officials detected the bird flu in multiple domestic ducks found dead in a North Austin pond this month.
A researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital said the bird flu virus needs to be taken seriously so it doesn’t become the ...
Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...
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Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...
Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...
It's been 10 years since the U.S. has built up a stockpile of bird flu vaccine for poultry. As the virus continues to ...
Officials say the continued cases stem from a long-lasting flare-up of the virus over the last couple of years.
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