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USDA's Dereliction in Containing Bird Flu Could Cause Calamitous Pandemic (Part 1)
USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.
AgWeb6d
Bird Flu Quarantine to be Lifted on Most Affected Iowa Farms
Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone ...
Bird flu virus detected in pigs for the first time in US
The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...
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Researchers Found Bird Flu In Pigs — Here’s Why That’s So Worrisome
H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...
Iowa Farm Bureau9d
Enhanced bird flu testing coming to nation’s milk supply
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced plans to implement a tiered strategy this month to increase testing ...
News7h
Lab confirms Canada's first case of avian flu infection in humans in B.C.
Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ...
Secretary Vilsack discusses Pure Prairie Poultry closure, bird flu dairy testing program
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag ...