Insights and Stories on H7N8

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

Jan. 26, 2017 at 3:56 pm CST

London | Reuters — The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. Multiple outbreaks have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, […]

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

Jul. 12, 2016 at 5:16 pm CDT

By Staff

Poultry at risk for avian flu during migration

Apr. 29, 2016 at 6:56 pm CDT

By Staff

Two more states’ eggs, poultry allowed into Canada

Mar. 31, 2016 at 3:56 am CDT

By Staff

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Indiana

Jan. 18, 2016 at 8:19 pm CST

By Staff

U.S. deploys new bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry

Jan. 18, 2016 at 7:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farm and health officials are racing to assess the threat that a type of bird flu never before seen in the country poses to humans and poultry, employing emergency plans drawn up in the wake of a devastating outbreak in birds last year. The federal […]

By Julie Steenhuysen Tom Polansek

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

Jan. 15, 2016 at 11:00 am CST

Chicago | Reuters –– An Indiana turkey flock has been infected with a deadly type of bird flu in the first new case of the disease in U.S. poultry since June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday. The flock in Dubois County, Indiana, was infected with a highly […]

By Tom Polansek

Insights and Stories on H7N8

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

Poultry at risk for avian flu during migration

Two more states’ eggs, poultry allowed into Canada

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Indiana

U.S. deploys new bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

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