After 60 days of ripening cheese made from infected raw milk may still contain active H5N1 virus.

After 60 days of ripening cheese made from infected raw milk may still contain active H5N1 virus.
2 Cats in New York City Test Positive for #BirdFlu
Authorities have not disclosed how the pets contracted H5N1. They don’t tell you that it’s #airborne in addition to food, blood, feces, and surface borne. Veterinarians advised to #N95. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-cats-bird-flu/
The scariest thing about bird flu for me is the possibility of it moving back and forth between people and animals, especially the animals in cities, making it massively harder to deal with than covid.
AMA does medical updates on their YouTube page - learn the latest on measles, bird flu and more in the USA.
Amid hostility toward its allies, tariffs, and direct threats to Canada and Denmark over territory, the US is now begging other countries to provide US-ians with eggs.
The US Department of Agriculture is reaching out to other nations in a bid to lower egg prices with bird flu decimating US producton. Convicted felon Trump's insane and counter-productive trade policies and belligerence aren't helping matters.
#USPolitics #BirdFlu #Tariffs #Eggs
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-many-eggs-can-you-send-us-asks-countries-help-lower-soaring-prices-2025-03-14/
If we start vaccinating chickens, that will immediately reduce the price of eggs because all the anti-vaxxers won’t trust them, freeing up the supply for those of us living in a science base world.
“…the responses to our current #BirdFlu & #measles outbreaks (not to mention our HISTORICALLY BAD FLU season), we seem to be making the SAME MISTAKES over & over again” -former surgeon general under Trump
https://rollcall.com/2025/03/13/on-covid-19-anniversary-concerns-about-the-lessons-unlearned/
All 3 eaglets are doing well. Mom Jackie is covered in snow, sheltering those sweet babies with her 7000+ waterproof feathers.
The 2 Fort Meyers eaglets died in January after consuming an infected bird that had been fed to them by their parent eagle. The autopsy showed that they were killed by avian flu. Their parents are currently asymptomatic but being closely monitored. For the chicks, their death came after signs of fatigue & seizures.
Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices but U.S. remains hesitant.
@AssociatedPress reports: "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."
"Potential #pandemic": #Veterinarians warn of virus now affecting #pets, https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/potentielle-pandemie-tieraerzte-warnen-jetzt-vor-virus-das-haustiere-befaellt_9b32f0e3-c871-4c89-9f8f-f03cc8f3f132.html
#Scientists are concerned that more and more cases of #birdflu are occurring in #pets . According to a report by the "hna", the #H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, is now also infecting #dogs and #cats. Experts are talking about a "silent pandemic" that primarily affects domestic cats.
Are disease experts still allowed to work in the US?
LA Times: Study shows widespread bird flu infection in cattle
AP: Egg prices continue to hit records as Easter and Passover approach https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/egg-prices-continue-to-hit-records-as-easter-and-passover-approach #eggs #inflation #birdflu
Don't worry, Trump & his team are ON IT!
"Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently ID'd in 4 dairy cow herds, nearly year after H5N1 #BirdFlu 1st reported in TX dairy cattle.
..researchers have dreaded finding bc it is assoc w increased mammal-to-mammal transmission & disease severity.
Mutation appeared in 1st human case. “Finding the same mutation in cows is significant,” an infectious disease expert said"
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-12/study-shows-widespread-h5n1-bird-flu-infection-in-cattle
Harvard Medical School:
Are We on the Cusp of a Major Bird Flu Outbreak?
Scientists weigh in on the spread of H5N1 and highlight clues that portend what might come next
(TLDR; experts are worried, but not in a panic, yet)
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/are-we-cusp-major-bird-flu-outbreak
@HelenBranswell
"Cumulative national total: 985 herds across 17 states," that we know of, so far, Helen.
#BirdFlu #USPlagues
#USDA confirmed 2 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Idaho, bringing the state's total to 38 herds.
Cumulative national total: 985 herds across 17 states. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock
The #Netherlands are starting a pilot to vaccinate chicken and other poultry against the #AvianFlu #BirdFlu. The pilot will run until 2027 and can be scaled up fast if needed. Let’s hope the vaccine works.
(Announcement from the ministry in Dutch) https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/03/10/start-pilot-vaccineren-pluimvee-tegen-vogelgriep
Article in English (possibly paywalled) Netherlands starts bird flu vaccination program at hen farm - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/netherlands-starts-bird-flu-vaccination-program-hen-farm-2025-03-10/#:~:text=March%2010%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20The,the%20government%20said%20on%20Monday.