For those who feel taking medical advice from Robert Kennedy, Jr. is risky, consider his plan for avian flu. Suggesting we ...

South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...

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The Health and Human Services Department under Kennedy took unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, ...

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But it's rare for the bird flu to be transferred from one human to another, according to the AAFP. In order to do so, the virus must transform into a human flu virus.

In past outbreaks, bird flu has often been deadly in people. Dr. Kay Russo: If you look at cases worldwide of H5 influenza, the mortality rate's fifty per cent.

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What is bird flu? Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is the name for a number of different virus strains that infect birds. The vast majority of strains of the virus do not infect humans.

“If people see a wild bird acting weird, the best thing they can do is call their local wildlife rehabilitator” and avoid handling it directly, said Dr. Dana Franzen-Klein, a veterinarian and ...

A recent bird flu outbreak among migratory eared grebes in Utah killed between 15,000 and 25,000 birds near Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said in early February.

Bird flu has spread widely in poultry, causing egg shortages. Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including humans. H5N1 does not currently have the ability to spread human to ...