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California offering $25 gift cards to encourage bird flu testing
Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...
California Gives $25 Gift Cards To Boost Bird Flu Testing
Clinics run by a state vendor near affected farms are giving out $25 gift cards to people who get a swab test for H5N1 bird ...
As bird flu hits cattle herds in U.S., scientists say these H5N1 factors worry them most
Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...
A look at egg prices and where the fight against avian flu is
Today, we look at eggs and the rise of avian flu that began in 2023. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, in March, the ...
Trump's stepped up immigration efforts hurt work to address bird flu among workers
The Trump Administration's zeal for rounding up and deporting those migrants is making efforts to combat bird flu harder as ...
Bird flu studies show variant from 2016 was one mutation away from binding to human receptors
A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...
Commentary: How likely is it that bird flu will spread to humans on a mass scale?
As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there ...
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Is the world heading towards a bird flu pandemic?
Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...
Bird flu forced 30M chickens to be culled across nine states so far this year
So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...