Hacker News with Generative AI: Animal Health

UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first (arstechnica.com)
The H5N1 bird flu has spilled over to a sheep for the first time, infecting a domesticated ruminant in the United Kingdom much like it has in US dairy cows, according to UK officials.

Science, Health, Agriculture, Animal Health

12 points by pmags 32 days ago | 1 comments

"It has been determined" that infected dairy herd serology can be disclosed (hogvet51.substack.com)
Opaqueness in decision-making was an eye-opener for me 22 years ago when I moved to federal service from the private sector. Controversial or unpopular decisions came down from above with no fingerprints, just a third-party attribution, e.g. “it has been determined…” I came to quickly realize that not personally owning a tough to-defend decision is a form of professional survival in the chain of command of the regulatory environment.

Government, Transparency, Decision Making, Public Health, Animal Health

61 points by ctoth 45 days ago | 39 comments

Alarm as bird flu now 'endemic in cows' (theguardian.com)
A newer variant of H5N1 bird flu has spilled over into dairy cows separately in Nevada and Arizona, prompting new theories about how the virus is spread and leading to questions about containing the ongoing outbreaks.

Animal Health, Avian Flu, Agriculture

20 points by MilnerRoute 62 days ago | 8 comments

Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals (cnn.com)

Bird Flu, Animal Health, Science, Genetics

28 points by amichail 76 days ago | 5 comments

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People (nytimes.com)
Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.

Public Health, Animal Health, Virus Transmission, CDC

25 points by vinni2 78 days ago | 3 comments

First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm (theguardian.com)
The first outbreak of a rare bird flu in poultry has been detected on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.

Bird Flu, Agriculture, Public Health, California, Animal Health

5 points by howard941 88 days ago | 1 comments

Cat and Dog Food Manufacturers Required to Consider H5N1 in Food Safety Plans (fda.gov)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined that it is necessary for manufacturers of cat and dog foods who are covered by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PCAF) rule and using uncooked or unpasteurized materials derived from poultry or cattle (e.g., uncooked meat, unpasteurized milk or unpasteurized eggs) to reanalyze their food safety plans to include Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus (specifically H5N1) as a known or reasonably foreseeable hazard.

Food Safety, Animal Health, Poultry, H5N1, FDA

4 points by bookofjoe 97 days ago | 0 comments

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 112 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 121 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 121 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 122 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 160 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 177 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 178 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 200 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 214 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 222 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 275 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 282 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 283 days ago | 30 comments

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