While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

In today’s Health Alert, a new strain of bird flu - H5N9 - has been detected in the U.S. The first confirmed case was found ...

Health officials are working to contain an outbreak of bird flu at a Hudson Valley farm, the second such outbreak in New York ...

This latest outbreak is part of a broader epizootic that has swept across the United States, affecting not only poultry but ...

ABSTRACT: Viral hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infections are endemic in Africa. According to seroprevalence studies, HBV is found in roughly 8% of individuals, while HCV is found in more than 1% of ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

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Brazilian exports of duck meat – a high value-added meat segment – ended ... with 179 tonnes (+18%). “The two poultry sectors added US$ 165 million in foreign exchange revenues to the country, and ...

(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has confirmed multiple cases of bird flu in domestic ducks from ... The virus is highly contagious and ...

At least a dozen people have been sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A ... that it is extending its modified poultry line speed waivers so a study ...

If those populations land in lakes or ponds with sick ducks, those birds can pick up the disease and spread it from place to place, thus keeping it persisting in the environment. While the virus ...

Osteoarthritis, like other forms of arthritis, can sometimes result in significant deformities. This picture shows osteoarthritis in the hands and the contractures that can occur with long-standing ...