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3 California condors found dead in Arizona. Now officials know how they died

Three California condors were found dead in northern Arizona, and now officials know the cause.

Tribune News Service

White House sticks with tradition and rolls the eggs

WASHINGTON — The White House rolls out its annual post-Easter celebration Monday with flocks of kids and 30,000 eggs on the South Lawn despite suggestions that it opt for potatoes or even rocks amid an avian flu outbreak and soaring prices.

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Sanders: "We must break up Big Ag"

Progressives question Cal-Maine Foods' claim that an avian flu outbreak is to blame for soaring egg prices

Salon

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Avian flu claimed lives of 13,000 barnacle geese in Dumfries and Galloway

NatureScot has revealed the devastating figure as it prepares for the return of Scotland’s seabird colonies across the summer

Daily Record

Farne Islands shut to visitors over fears of new avian flu outbreak

Rangers work to avoid repeat of last year’s devastating losses in breeding seabird colonies on the islands off the Northumberland coast

The Guardian - UK

Mission to protect Scotland's seabirds from avian flu as species return to breed

NatureScot officials along with the RSPB have ramped up surveillance, monitoring and biosecurity measures for our wild bird colonies.

Daily Record

Bird flu: The next pandemic?

It has ravaged farms, decimated wild birds and spilled onto mammals. Could avian flu spark the next human pandemic? The Down to Earth team takes a closer look.

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First birds, now mammals: how H5N1 is killing thousands of sea lions in Peru

Avian flu has decimated the marine creatures on the country’s Pacific coastline and scientists fear it could be jumping from mammal to mammal

The Guardian - UK

Public urged to stay away from dead animals as bird flu found in seal carcasses

People are being urged to stay away from dead animals after bird flu was found in a number of dead seals on the Cornish coast.

Evening Standard

Bird flu: Nigeria is on major migratory bird routes, new strains keep appearing

Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral infection of birds, commonly called “bird flu”, which has been recurring in Nigeria since 2006. It has resulted in the loss of millions of birds and income for people who rely on the poultry industry. Nigeria is currently grappling with another outbreak which…

The Conversation

King Charles to get briefing on work to stop Avian Flu

Since October 2021 there have been more than 330 cases of avian influenza confirmed across the country

Wales Online

Avian flu is decimating wild birds – but could it become a global pandemic?

It is threatening rare species, and causing havoc for chicken farmers. Now a strain of bird flu has spread to mammals. Could it be a danger to humans?

The Guardian - UK

East Lothian Bass Rock featured in new BBC documentary exploring bird flu epidemic

The East Lothian gannet colony has suffered immensely at the hands of avian flu in recent months as images taken in summer 2022 show it almost unrecognisable compared to recent years

Edinburgh Live

Shocking impact of avian flu on Scotland's bird populations revealed in TV doc

Harrowing stories from the frontline of the fight against bird flu reveal how thousands of dead birds have washed up on Scots shores.

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The Independent UK

Bird flu: Lateral flow tests could return to UK in outbreaks fear

An 11-year-old girl from Cambodia died last week after contracting avian flu strain H5N1

The Guardian - UK

Lateral flow tests being prepared for UK outbreaks of avian flu

After a girl in Cambodia died from H5N1, the UK Health Security Agency is on alert but says human-to-human transmission is rare

Nottingham Post

Trust plea to not feed birds at Attenborough Nature Reserve amid largest ever Avian Flu outbreak

The current outbreak has killed more than 200 million birds

Reuters

Flu experts gather with H5N1 risk on the agenda

The world's leading experts on influenza met this week to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu that has caused record numbers of bird deaths around the world in recent months.

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Fortune

Bird flu has reportedly killed a Cambodian girl and sickened others. What you need to know about H5N1

The mortality rate currently sits between 50% and 60%, according to the WHO and other sources.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Are eggs too pricey? Ditch them. Here’s why

We all feel the pain with each beep as the cashier scans our food items. People who buy eggs are cringing especially hard right now. As prices continue to climb—up 60% from last year—some even resort to smuggling them into the U.S. from Mexico. Experts attribute the high cost of…

The Independent UK

Public told to ‘bin’ dead birds despite avian flu outbreak

Woman says call handler told her to bin dead birds because authorities ‘so busy’

Salon

Legislators aim to combat egg prices

While eggs' exorbitant prices have been well-documented, the reason why still seems a little murky

ABC News

New bird flu strain in mammals overseas has Australian experts worried

Millions of birds have died from a new strain of avian flu sweeping the globe, and while it has not been detected in Australia yet, experts are worried the virus also has been found in mammals.

Reuters

Bird flu spreads to new countries, threatens non-stop "war" on poultry

Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry, according to veterinarians and disease experts, who warn it is now a year-round problem.

Salon

Bird flu is spreading. Don't freak out

Avian flu H5N1 is spreading from birds to mammals. Human risk is low, but don't relax just yet

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