Colorado Governor Jared Polis declared a state of emergency after a deadly bird flu outbreak hit a poultry farm in Weld County, affecting 1.8 million chickens. The virus also infected a dairy farm worker, though he recovered with mild symptoms. Officials assure the public that the risk to humans is
McDonald’s in Australia has reduced its breakfast hours by 90 minutes due to a severe egg shortage caused by bird flu outbreaks across several states. The outbreaks have led to the euthanization of over one million birds, impacting egg supplies nationwide. McDonald’s announced on social media that breakfast will now
Despite ongoing questions about its mRNA technology, Moderna has secured a $176 million U.S. government contract to develop a bird flu vaccine as concerns grow over the H5N1 virus spreading among dairy cows and workers. This funding will support advanced development and testing of the vaccine, with late-stage trials planned
Gain-Of-Function research, involving organizations like the USDA, CAS, and Roslin Institute, may explain the recent jump of bird flu, specifically the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, to cows and humans. You can read the original article here. At least twice in the last six months, experts have been taken aback by avian
The founder of the Raw Milk Institute and Fresno’s Raw Farm, Mark McAfee, claimed that raw milk enthusiasts are demanding milk infected with bird flu. Citing data indicating a “high viral load” of avian influenza in samples taken from diseased cows and a startling cluster of dead barn cats who
Dr. Robert Califf, Commissioner of the FDA, stated that they are preparing for the possible spread of bird flu among humans, with one verified case already reported in Texas this year. The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated on May 8 that the organization is ready
A study showing that it takes as few as five mutations to turn the H5N1 avian influenza virus into an airborne spreader in mammals—and that launched a historic debate on scientific accountability and transparency—was released today in Science, spilling the full experimental details that many experts had sought to suppress out