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Trump administration trying to rehire USDA bird flu officials it fired​

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Image caption, The latest outbreak of bird flu has wreaked havoc on poultry and cattle farms Article information
  • Author, Madeline Halpert
  • Role, BBC News
  • 19 February 2025
US President Donald Trump's administration is attempting to rehire officials with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) who worked on the government response to bird flu before being fired over the weekend, US media report.
The layoffs were a part of a cost-cutting mission across the US government by Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) leader Elon Musk.
The terminations came as the latest outbreak of the bird flu has wreaked havoc on poultry and cattle farms, causing egg prices to skyrocket and raising concerns among public health experts.
A USDA spokesperson told the BBC that although "several" officials working on bird flu were "notified of their terminations" over the weekend, "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters".
 

Everyone's sick this winter. What’s up with flu, norovirus, RSV and COVID?​

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If it seems like you and everyone around you are getting sick this winter, you're not wrong.

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections have reached the highest level since the winter of 2010 and 2011 when the swine flu swept across the nation, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

The surge in flu cases also comes amid concerns about high infection rates for other viruses including RSV, COVID-19 and the gastrointestinal bug norovirus. Still, health officials say flu cases are among their top concerns right now.

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began five years ago, flu-related deaths topped COVID-19-related deaths this winter.
 

First Cows, Now Cats. Is Bird Flu Coming for Humans Next?​

With so much H5N1 virus circulating across the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic​

Sumathi Reddy
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Feb. 17, 2025 at 9:00 pm ET



A strain of bird flu recently spread from wild birds and poultry to cows, and a dairy worker subsequently tested positive for the strain.
A strain of bird flu recently spread from wild birds and poultry to cows, and a dairy worker subsequently tested positive for the strain.PHOTO: MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds.
 

Can avian flu spread via the wind? Can't be ruled out, experts say​

Mary Van Beusekom, MS

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-in...flu-spread-wind-cant-be-ruled-out-experts-say


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Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
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A non–peer-reviewed study published on the preprint server bioRxiv suggests that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus shed in poultry droppings can be transmitted by the wind, a possibility that other experts say can't be ruled out but is also very difficult to prove.

The report centers on a February 2024 outbreak of H5N1 avian flu among unrelated commercial poultry farms located about 8 kilometers (5 miles) apart in the Czech Republic during the 2023-24 HPAI season.

Since the latest H5N1 epidemic began in February 2022, the virus has led to the deaths of more than 150 million US birds.

Ideal weather for transmission​

The cluster was identified after avian flu killed 5,000 fattening ducks within 2 days at a basic-biosecurity 50,000-bird farm near a lake frequented by wild ducks, the probable cause of the outbreak; the rest of the poultry were culled. A week later, deadly outbreaks with a slower disease course occurred at two high-biosecurity chicken farms, where dead birds were found mainly near the barns' air-intake vents; the entire population was culled. All farms had their own wells.

Experts hypothesize that the slower disease course in the chicken barns may be due to lower H5N1 transmissibility in chickens, waning concentrations of the virus over distance from the duck farm, or housing conditions.

The researchers, from the State Veterinary Institute Prague, used genetic, epizootiologic, meteorologic, and geographic data to reconstruct events suggesting that wind was the mechanism of H5N1 transmission between poultry on at least two of the farms. Three H5N1 strains collected from birds at all three farms were genetically identical, no large waterways were near the chicken farms, and the duck farm didn't share staff or contractors with the chicken farms.

Our results suggest that the contaminated plume emitted from the infected fattening duck farm was the critical medium of HPAI transmission, rather than the dust generated during depopulation.
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What's more, meteorologic data revealed a breeze in the direction of the chicken farms, cloudy conditions that could have kept the sun's ultraviolet light from killing the virus, and virus-supporting cool air. The team didn't conduct air sampling.
 
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