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The avian flu virus is rapidly spreading through commercial flocks in the U.S.
The Avian influenza summer break is not only over, it has been smashed. In the past 30 days, the virus has spread to 106 commercial flocks in 23 states. And California is the latest to report outbreaks —in two broiler operations in Stanislaus County and an egg-laying business in Sonoma County. The numbers depopulated are
Avian flu kills more than 61 million birds, but CDC still sees only a slight threat to humans
After a summer pause, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemic in the United States resumed last month, first as a single event, then as a cluster of cases, and it is now spreading across at least 14 states. The new outbreak cases first took the dead bird total to over 60 million, then the new
Avian secret: The key to agile bird flight is switching quickly between stable and unstable gliding
Jasmin Wong records the range of motion of a gull wing using tracking markers. The study results revealed how birds use the shapes of their wings to switch quickly between stable and unstable gliding, enabling agile maneuvers. Credit: Derek Tan, University of British Columbia. While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key…
PIO avian flu functional exercise
The PIO avian flu functional exercise materials were adapted from a public information exercise designed to test the Ohio state communications plan and practice the formation of a joint information center. The exercise is noteworthy for several reasons:It focused on the public information aspects of an influenza event It incorporated new PIOs into the exercise with…