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  • First H5N1 Bird Flu Case Confirmed in San Mateo Backyard Flock

    02/06/2025 5:26:56 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | February 6, 2025 | Jia Jung
    The discovery prompted health officials to remind people to take biosecurity measuresSan Mateo County confirmed for the first time the presence of bird flu in a backyard poultry flock in San Mateo this week after the owner contacted the state agriculture department’s Sick Bird Hotline. The H5N1 incident was one of 49 backyard flock infections documented across the country — including 38 in California — by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. No human infection has been found in association with the flock, but the county’s health department reminded backyard poultry and livestock owners to take precautions such as handwashing to...
  • Deadly version of H5N1 bird flu spills over into Nevada dairy cattle

    02/05/2025 4:19:24 PM PST · by dynachrome · 44 replies
    LA Times ^ | 2-5-25 | Susanne Rust
    A version of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed a person in Louisiana and severely sickened a teenager in Canada has now been detected in dairy herds in Nevada. The version, known as D1.1, is circulating in wild birds around the nation — causing massive die-offs in places such as Chicago, upstate New York and Ohio. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the finding Wednesday. It’s different from the version circulating in dairy cows, which has caused only relatively mild illness in humans, although it has killed scores of domestic and wild cats....
  • Waffle House adds surcharge for eggs as prices skyrocket

    02/04/2025 9:43:27 PM PST · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Nation's Restaurant News ^ | February 04, 2025 | Joanna Fantozzi, Senior Editor
    Restaurant operators are left scrambling as a new bird flu pandemic has decreased egg supplies Waffle House is not the only restaurant considering menu changes due to egg inflation. Waffle House is adding a temporary surcharge to combat the continuing egg shortage driven by the so-called bird flu, or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPIA). As the latest outbreak of bird flu continues to spread nationally — causing more than 20 million deaths of egg-laying chickens last quarter, according to the USDA — egg prices have skyrocketed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, egg prices rose 36.8% in 2024, which...
  • Waffle House is passing along the sky high cost of eggs to diners with a 50 cent surcharge

    02/04/2025 10:45:44 AM PST · by EBH · 39 replies
    AP News ^ | 2/4/25
    The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place due to the biggest bird flu outbreak in a decade. The 24-7 restaurant said that the resulting egg shortage has led to a dramatic increase in its costs. Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And it appears there may be no relief in sight with Easter approaching. The average price per dozen eggs nationwide hit $4.15 in December. That’s not quite as high as...
  • Trump Vowed to 'Immediately' Bring Down Egg Prices. His New Press Secretary Says Sudden Spike Is Biden's Fault

    01/31/2025 8:39:13 PM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 59 replies
    People ^ | Jan 31, 2025 | Rachel Raposas
    Donald Trump made a campaign promise to "immediately bring prices down" on his first day in office. Instead, egg prices have spiked. During her first White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed former President Joe Biden for hurting the egg supply and driving up costs. Egg prices are expected to continue rising due to a bird flu outbreak, which Biden's Department of Agriculture tried controlling early on by euthanizing infected chickens. Egg prices have risen in the short time since President Donald Trump took office — despite his campaign promise to "immediately bring prices down, starting on day one"...
  • Why Anthony Fauci Is Concerned about Bird Flu and Public Division

    01/29/2025 2:08:37 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 37 replies
    Scientific American ^ | 12/4/24 | Rachel Feltman, Tanya Lewis, Fonda Mwangi & Jeffery DelViscio
    Rachel Feltman: The public health world is filled with heroes, but it doesn’t exactly produce a ton of celebrities. One notable exception is Anthony Fauci. This physician-scientist and immunologist is best known to most people for his service as chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2022. But while his work during the worst of the COVID pandemic made him a household name, Fauci has been a celebrated figure in his field for decades, thanks to his nearly 40-year tenure as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His new book, On Call: A...
  • Bird Flu Evolution is Driven by Large-Scale Poultry Vaccinations, New Study Finds

    01/28/2025 6:30:09 AM PST · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    The Debrief ^ | January 27, 2025 | Ryan Whalen
    A new international study suggests that vaccines may be driving bird flu evolution, as efforts to contain the spread of the virus face increasing challenges. Amid growing concerns about potential human cases, a new analysis has found increasingly resilient bird flu strains are arising globally. Despite this, significant concerns for rapidly spreading H5 bird flu infections remain isolated within avian populations. Mass Poultry Vaccines In many countries, farmers feed livestock with steady doses of antibiotics and vaccines to keep them healthy until their turn at the slaughterhouse or as they continue to produce milk and eggs for animal agriculture. The...
  • CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

    01/27/2025 4:10:05 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Updated Mon, January 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM CST | MIKE STOBBE
    NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing global threats. It also comes as health authorities...
  • Egg prices hit a new record the first week Trump was in office. Don’t expect them to drop in 2025

    01/27/2025 4:43:18 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 71 replies
    The Independent ^ | Jan 27, 2025 | Amber Raiken
    Along with all the changes we’ve seen across the country in the early throws of 2025, consumers have been warned to expect some record-high egg prices in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) price outlook, egg prices are predicted to increase by 20.3 percent by the end of 2025. This isn’t necessarily a surprise, since retail egg prices were up by 8.4 percent in December. The elevated egg prices come after the 2022 outbreak of bird flu, which led to more than 20 million egg-laying chickens dying in the U.S. during the last quarter of...
  • State of Georgia Halts Poultry Sales

    01/24/2025 9:00:23 AM PST · by Red Badger · 63 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | January 23, 2025 | Ben Zeisloft
    The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced the suspension of all poultry-related activities in the state after a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was detected in a commercial facility. The positive case of HPAI, found by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at a commercial poultry operation in Elbert County, Georgia, was the first discovered in a commercial operation in the Peach State, according to a Jan. 17 notice from the Georgia Department of Agriculture. That means all “in-state poultry exhibitions, shows, swaps, meets, and sales are suspended until further notice.” “For the first time...
  • Trump and Biden officials begin talks on bird flu crisis

    01/16/2025 3:44:55 PM PST · by dynachrome · 40 replies
    NBC ^ | 1-14-25 | Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Erika Edwards and Suzy Khimm
    Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of the incoming Trump administration about how they’ve responded to the crisis so far. “We sent them all of the information on our work,” said a Biden administration health official familiar with transition briefings within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the first indication that the two administrations appear to be working together to prioritize the H5N1 response. Until now, it was unclear whether the Biden White House and Trump’s incoming health team had discussed bird flu in any...
  • Dr. Peter McCullough stresses importance of early preventative measures to combat bird flu

    Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and chief scientific officer at The Wellness Company, says the Louisiana man who died from a case of bird flu on Monday is the first recorded death from this illness in American history. “This man who died, found the birds in his backyard, probably didn’t put two and two together, got very, very sick, came to the hospital late. He had medical problems, he was older. But it’s a sobering reminder that we have to do early preventive measures—nasal sprays, gargles—and have early treatment ready,” he says.
  • First US Human Death From Bird Flu Reported: Authorities have confirmed the first human death in the United States caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1

    01/06/2025 5:11:49 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 63 replies
    Daily Voice ^ | 01/06/2024 | Joe Lombardi
    Authorities have confirmed the first human death in the United States caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1. The announcement was made by the Louisiana Department of Health on Monday, Jan. 6. The patient, a man over 65 with underlying health conditions, was hospitalized before succumbing to the illness after exposure to a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds. The Louisiana Department of Health said it has conducted a public health investigation and found no additional cases or evidence of person-to-person transmission. The department extended condolences to the patient’s family and stated this will be the final update...
  • VIDEO: We Don't Want Your Damn Bird Flu Vaccines!

    01/03/2025 9:58:08 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 12 replies
    Rumble ^ | January 3, 2025 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOThey are trying! Oh how they are trying waaaaay too hard to convince the public to accept Bird Flu vaccines! The problem for them is that after the COVID vaccine experience, few to almost none of the public are willing to ever again take a vaccine because the "experts" recommend it. Especially when those "experts" come in the form of obvious vaccine hustler nutcases such as Peter Hotez and Bill Gates.
  • CDC Detects Bird Flu Mutation in Human, Amid New Infections in Cats

    12/30/2024 7:19:47 PM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 32 replies
    /www.sciencealert.com ^ | 30 December 2024 | ByIssam Ahmed, AFP
    The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts – not just because of human cases causing severe illness, but also due to troubling new instances of infections in cats.
  • HERE WE GO: Officials in Maricopa County, AZ Say Bird Flu Detected in County Wastewater

    12/30/2024 2:24:33 PM PST · by blueyon · 37 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | 12/30/24 | Jordan Conradson
    Maricopa County public health officials say they’ve detected “an influenza subtype associated with avian flu in local wastewater” in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe, Arizona. Officials say the risk to the general population remains low. The Gateway Pundit has reported on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fear-mongering about a new potential pandemic of avian flu as if the public hasn’t been subjected to enough panic and virus hoaxes in recent years. In a move reminiscent of his overreaching COVID-19 policies, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California this month in response to the...
  • HERE WE GO: Covid Tyrant Dr. Leana Wen Says Biden Regime Needs to Get Millions of Doses of Bird Flu Vaccines to the American People ASAP (VIDEO)

    12/29/2024 7:23:04 PM PST · by bitt · 35 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | 12/29/2024 | CRISTINA LAILA
    Here we go. Dr. Leana Wen, the Communist doctor who demanded Americans lose all their rights during the Covid pandemic, appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday to discuss the Bird Flu outbreak. The CDC recently confirmed the first severe U.S. human case of H5N1 bird flu in a 65-year-old Louisiana man who had contact with sick backyard birds. California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom last week declared a state of emergency in response to the recent bird flu outbreak. On Sunday CBS News rolled out Covid tyrant Dr. Leana Wen to weigh in on the bird flu and she...
  • Oregon avian flu cat death prompts nationwide raw pet food recall

    12/29/2024 11:05:18 AM PST · by EBH · 30 replies
    University of Minnesota ^ | 12/29/24 | Lisa Schnirring
    The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) yesterday reported that a house cat has died from H5N1 avian flu after eating raw frozen pet food, which has prompted the voluntary recall of raw pet food that was sold nationwide through distributors in 12 states as well as in British Columbia. The development is part of a growing number of avian flu infections in cats, including new detections in pets from a second California county. Genetic match between cat and raw food viruses In a statement, the ODA said the house cat that tested positive for H5N1 died after eating raw food....
  • Video: Dr. Leana Wen calls on the Biden administration to authorize “bird flu vaccines” for "vulnerable" Americans before Donald Trump takes office

    12/29/2024 9:50:01 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 49 replies
    Dr. Leana Wen, who said during the COVID pandemic that Americans should be forced to take a vaccine, says Biden should be pushing a Bird Flu injection on “vulnerable” people before the Trump inauguration
  • How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

    12/26/2024 4:15:32 PM PST · by dynachrome · 35 replies
    cnn ^ | 12-24-24 | Amy Maxmen
    Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and udders slack. But the scale of the farmers’ efforts to treat the sick cows stunned him. They showed videos of systems they built to hydrate hundreds of cattle at once. In 14-hour shifts, dairy workers pumped gallons of electrolyte-rich fluids into ailing cows through metal tubes inserted into the esophagus. “It was like watching a field hospital on an active...