Hacker News with Generative AI: Animal Health

How the U.S. Lost Control of Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic (scientificamerican.com)
As the bird flu virus moved into cows and people, sluggish federal action, deference to industry and neglect for worker safety put the country at risk

Public Health, Pandemic, Animal Health, Government Regulation

6 points by Traces 14 days ago | 0 comments

Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary (cnn.com)

Animal Health, Wildlife, Disease Outbreaks, Conservation

169 points by bikenaga 23 days ago | 58 comments

Oregon house cat dies from eating product that tested positive for bird flu (cnn.com)

Oregon, Avian Flu, Animal Health, Pets

19 points by bikenaga 23 days ago | 2 comments

Big Cats Die from Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary (nytimes.com)
Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died between late November and mid-December at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director.

Animal Health, Wildlife, Bird Flu, Washington State

8 points by JumpCrisscross 24 days ago | 2 comments

H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (cdc.gov)
H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.

Public Health, Avian Flu, Animal Health

5 points by lnyan 62 days ago | 0 comments

First H5N1 Detections in Swine (usda.gov)
There is no concern about the safety of the nation’s pork supply as a result of this finding.   

Public Health, Swine, Animal Health

56 points by ctoth 79 days ago | 8 comments

H5N1 virus isolated from infected dairy worker is 100% lethal in ferrets (news.wisc.edu)
A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, although inefficiently, and killed 100% of infected animals in studies University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers performed with the strain earlier this year.

H5N1, Avian Influenza, Animal Health, Science, Public Health

46 points by ctoth 80 days ago | 32 comments

Experiment confirms that bird flu in the US is spread by milking procedures (elpais.com)
An experiment with cows in a high-security laboratory in the United States offers alarming data on the possibility of stopping the global bird flu epidemic, the worst recorded in history.

Science, Animal Health, Agriculture, Public Health

21 points by PaulHoule 102 days ago | 3 comments

Bird flu is spreading rapidly in California; infected herds double over weekend (arstechnica.com)
The H5N1 bird flu appears to be stampeding through dairy farms in California, the country's largest milk producer. Over the weekend, the total number of confirmed infected cow herds stunningly doubled, going from 17 last Thursday to 34 Monday morning, according to state and federal officials.

Agriculture, Disease Outbreaks, California, Animal Health

26 points by LinuxBender 116 days ago | 2 comments

Bird flu is quietly getting scarier (theatlantic.com)
Up until last Friday afternoon, a total of 13 people in the United States had officially come down this year with avian influenza H5, also known as bird flu. A subtype of that virus, a potential pandemic pathogen called H5N1, has for months been circulating in our dairy herds, and has already killed tens of millions of birds here.

Public Health, Avian Flu, Animal Health, Pandemic

5 points by sieste 124 days ago | 0 comments

Spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus to dairy cattle (nature.com)

Avian Influenza, Animal Health, Science, Public Health

6 points by trott 177 days ago | 0 comments

Confirmation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial& Backyard Flocks (usda.gov)

Avian Influenza, Animal Health, Agriculture, Public Health

14 points by ljf 184 days ago | 3 comments

Five people infected as bird flu appears to go from cows to chickens to humans (arstechnica.com)

Bird Flu, Health, Disease, Animal Health, Human Health

48 points by speckx 185 days ago | 30 comments

Farmers must kill 4.2M chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm (nbcnews.com)