FOX 5 Atlanta : reported that CDC is tracking emerging, deadly bird flu in China - Story

CDC is tracking emerging, deadly bird flu in China FOX Medical Team CDC is tracking emerging, deadly bird flu in China As the U.S. flu season winds down, scientists in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Atlanta flu lab are focused on finding the next pandemic flu threat. She's talking about the H7N9 bird flu, which began spreading from poultry to people in 2013, with lethal consequences. And they're watching a deadly strain of bird flu in China. "Our scientists are taking that strain from the new bird flu viruses and making a candidate vaccine virus that can be used to hand off to companies, so that the flu vaccine manufacturers can make a new vaccine against that bird flu strain." - As the U.S. flu season winds down, scientists in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Atlanta flu lab are focused on finding the next pandemic flu threat.

France cuts bird flu risk to lowest level as crisis subsides

The government is scaling back the risk of highly pathogenic bird flu to "negligible", it announced in France's Official Journal on Friday. By Gus TrompizPARIS (Reuters) - The French government has cut its assessment of the risk of bird flu in the country to the lowest level after stemming a disease that had swept through the southwestern duck-breeding region for the second winter in a row. France recorded 485 outbreaks of H5N8 and slaughtered some 4 million poultry because of the virus, mainly in the southwest. The progressive lowering of the alert level reflects the fact that no new cases of the H5N8 virus have been confirmed since late March, a farm ministry spokesman said. France, which has the largest poultry flock in Europe, has been among countries most severely hit by the highly pathogenic H5N8 type of bird flu that has spread in Europe, the Middle East and Africa since late last year.

What Lincolnshire farmers need to know about latest bird flu outbreak

Bird flu can be passed on from bird to bird and by bird droppings. Farmers have been warned to be vigilant after a fresh outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed. READ MORE: Egg farmers could lose free range status after bird flu outbreakVehicles and footware must also be disinfected after it has been inside a bird enclosure. READ MORE: Poultry restrictions lifted after avian flu outbreak which killed 20,000 birdsAn Avian Influenza Prevention Zone is in place across the country and applies to anyone keeping birds and poultry. READ MORE: Scorching to freezing - spring is "challenging" time for farmingMore than 20,000 birds were killed in the recent outbreak and the infection was discovered at three farms in Lincolnshire.


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