The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring the growing bird flu outbreak, Politico reports. Meanwhile, Kevin Hassett, Trump’s director of the national economic council suggested Sunday that there is not a need to kill …
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Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a Louisiana resident had been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian influenza — also known as “bird flu” — in humans. A total of 65 other people in the United States had contracted the H5N1 …
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The Department of Agriculture will require dairy producers in several states to submit raw milk samples in order to test for Bird Flu infection. No, this does not mean the milk you buy at the grocery store could be infected with Bird Flu. Pasteurization kills the virus, and the risk …
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