Tag: avian
Avian flu: how the world is preparing for a pandemic
Tails, a pandemic. Heads, the threat disappears. The coin is tossed into the air, and it is very clever who could predict which way it will land. The H5N1 avian…
Avian flu in humans: a first death in the United States, what we know about the virus
An American has died from bird flu, a first in the country for this virus. A “tragic” death. The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced in a press release…
Avian flu: traces of the H5N1 virus detected in milk. Is there a risk in drinking it?
News Published on 04/25/2024 at 2:59 p.m. Updated 04/25/2024 at 2:59 p.m. Reading 1 min. in collaboration with Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo) Causing avian flu, traces of…
Avian flu: Antarctica faces worst-case scenario
In France, since December 5, free-range breeders have been forced to confine their poultry. The cause is the appearance of several outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in different departments.…
Avian flu among our European neighbors: should we be worried?
News Published on 06/12/2023 at 2:11 p.m. Updated 06/12/2023 at 2:11 p.m. Reading 3 min. Farms contaminated by avian flu are increasing all over Europe. However, should we fear a…
Avian flu: how France will vaccinate tens of millions of ducks
It is not just Covid that requires large-scale vaccination plans. From this Monday, the preventive vaccination campaign against the avian flu virus begins for French ducks, after having been officially…
Avian flu also plagues the Murmansk region
Dead birds have been found further east in Teriberka, according to the Murmansk media. The Murmansk regional administration is considering a quarantine for the worst places on the coast of…
St. Thomas politicians heed expert’s avian flu warning, halt backyard chickens plan
Politicians in St. Thomas put off a decision Monday night to launch a pilot program allowing backyard chickens amid concerns about the deadly avian flu. City council backed a staff…
against avian flu, two vaccines prove to be very effective
In France, the avian flu is devastating. 900,000 animals have been slaughtered since the beginning of the month. A dramatic situation for breeders whose farms are threatened. But, glimmer of…
Avian flu: “These vaccines stop the circulation of the virus at the scale of a herd”
Hope in the fight against bird flu: ducks could soon have their vaccine, according to the results of two trials made in France carried out in Côtes-d’Armor, in partnership with…