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National COVID-19 trends, November 11
Our view into COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in the U.S. remains severely limited by the government shutdown. While the data we do have suggest that COVID-19 spread is low to moderate across much of the country, wastewater surveillance indicates that cases are starting to increase in the Northeast and Midwest. Flu and RSV cases…
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Despite waning headlines, bird flu is still a threat. Here’s how you can help farmworkers.
In the arc of the bird flu in the U.S., 2024 to early 2025 was an explosive time. But then, last month, the CDC announced that it was ending its emergency response to the virus.
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What we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk
When H5N1 first landed in North America, borne on the wings of migratory birds blown off course from Europe in late 2021, Seema Lakdawala followed the developments closely, but she wasn’t overly worried about it leading to a pandemic in humans yet. There were still a few steps the highly pathogenic avian influenza needed to…
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We won’t avoid the next pandemic. But we can still prepare.
When a pandemic begins, so does the blame game. Early days of COVID-19 pointed fingers at wild meat markets and debunked lab leak conspiracies, and that crystallized a long-running narrative that outbreaks are generally humans’ fault; roll the dice enough times with wildlife and you’re bound to land on a plague. Problem is, generalizing that…
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Bird flu is spreading through U.S. farms. What are the risks to people?
For the first time, H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, was identified in cows, less than a week after the first case of bird flu was discovered in livestock among baby goats at a Minnesota farm. The news made infectious disease doctors and researchers take notice, since one warning sign that bird flu could be…
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