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September 25, 20254 min readCow Udders Could Brew Up Dangerous New Bird Flu StrainsCells in cow udders could act as a site for human flu and…

Catherine SnowdonHealth ProducerGetty ImagesThousands of pharmacies in England will offer free NHS flu spray doses to toddlers for the first time this year.The vaccination is given…

Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After AllInfectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air…

25,669 Northern Gannets in Canada.134 harbor and gray seals along the coast of Maine.21 California Condors in the western U.S.These are just a tiny fraction of…

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have…

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of…

Gene-Swaps Could Let Influenza Jump SpeciesInfluenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to part two of our three-part series on the battle against bird flu.(You can…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This is the final episode of our three-part series on bird flu.(You can listen to episode…

But what is the preservative, why is it the subject of controversy and will it affect vaccines in Australia?What does RFK Jr have to do with…