Trump agriculture secretary nominee Brooke Rollins says bird flu will be 'one of the very top priorities' for USDA if she is confirmed.
The consumer price index found that egg prices have increased 36.8 percent from this time last year, and experts believe the increase in price is the result of avian influenza, which is rapidly depleting the supply of chickens.
President Trump ordered a “blackout” for federal health agencies, which bans them from publishing external communication, but this cut-off could leave health care professionals and the public unable to appropriately respond to the increasing spread of bird flu.
At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the country’s first human death from bird flu: that of a 65-year-old man who had exposure to a backyard flock.
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted millions of dollars to Moderna to speed up bird flu vaccine development.
Sharply rising egg prices across the United States blamed on the ongoing H5N1 avian influenza outbreak are mostly being passed along to consumers by grocers and restaurateurs, but some are holding back.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said during her confirmation hearing Thursday that she has “a lot to learn” about highly pathogenic avian
Donald Trump's withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) has global health consequences that experts say could come back to bite the United States. And his order to immediately pause reports from US health agencies means there's a risk the rest of the world will be kept in the dark about the evolving outbreak of avian influenza H5N1.
Trump declared during his inaugural address to reinstate thousands of service members fired by Joe Biden for refusing the COVID vaccine with back pay.
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Trump’s decision is shortsighted and put the rest of the world is put at greater risk, say public health scholars