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Dr. Byerley suggested her mother-in-law imagine if, once out of every 10 times she used the restroom in a given day, she died. “Oh, 10 percent is terrible,” she recalled her mother-in-law saying. Dr. Byerley’s estimates showed, for instance, that an average 40-year-old vaccinated over six months ago faced roughly the same chance of being hospitalized after an infection as someone did of dying in a car crash in the course of 170 cross-country road trips. (More recent vaccine shots provide better protection than older ones, complicating these predictions.) For immunocompromised people, the risks are higher. An unvaccinated 61-year-old with an organ transplant, Dr. Byerley estimated, is three times as likely to die after an infection as someone is to die within five years of receiving a diag...

New bird flu cases were detected in a commercial chicken flock in Pennsylvania and a backyard flock in Utah, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday, with the outbreak now having spread to more than 30 states in the country. (mikecranephotography.com, Alamy) Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes WASHINGTON — New bird flu cases were detected in a commercial chicken flock in Pennsylvania and a backyard flock in Utah, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday, with the outbreak now having spread to more than 30 states in the country. The department said earlier this month it was looking into vaccines as an option to protect poultry again...

Over 200 birds have died from a bird flu outbreak at Baker’s Lake in Barrington, which is home to one of the biggest heron rookeries in the Midwest. | Photo: Forest Preserves of Cook CountyOfficials estimate over 200 birds have died from a flu outbreak at Baker’s Lake in Barrington last week. According to laboratory results from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the large bird population at the Baker’s Lake forest preserve in Barrington is suffering from a presumed outbreak of H5 avian influenza, the Forest Preserves of Cook County said. Forest preserve officials estimate more than 200 birds have died in the past week. Federal officials are conducting additional testing. Only the federal government can declare incidences of avian influenza, the forest preserves sai...

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A highly contagious and deadly strain of avian flu spreading among farms and wild birds in the United States has been claiming the lives of bald eagles. Three bald eagles found dead in Georgia tested positive for the new influenza strain, H5N1, the state’s department of natural resources announced this week. The statement also noted that a survey of bald eagles near Georgia’s coast found more “failed nests” than expected, some containing dead eaglets. It wasn’t immediately clear if nest failures were due to avian flu. Over the past month, H5N1 has also killed eagles in Maine, Ohio, South Dakota and Vermont, NPR reported. Wildlife rehabilitation center Back to the Wild said earlier in April that a dozen deathly ill eagles had been brought in, typically too sick to fly and unsteady on thei...

PA Department of Agriculture confirms state’s first case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Lancaster County Officials say there is no health risk to Pennsylvanians Updated: 2:11 PM EDT Apr 16, 2022 The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture confirmed the state’s first positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry, in a flock of commercial layer chickens on a Lancaster County poultry farm. ​A state and federal interagency task force is prepared and initiating a response plan. ​While there is no risk to the public, and poultry and eggs are safe to eat if cooked properly, HPAI is highly infectious ​and can be fatal...

Naeblys/Getty Images You wouldn't know it by looking at any one of us, but coursing through our veins every second of every day are tiny variations that categorize our blood into groups: A+, A-, B+, B-, O-, O+, AB+ and AB-.  These minute differences usually don't matter until they matter -- when you're in t...

Young kids in the UK, US, Ireland, and Spain have gotten severe acute hepatitis.  None of the kids tested positive for the viruses that cause the illness − hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. The WHO said the illness could have been caused by adenovirus but the link is still unclear.  Loading Something is loading. The World Health Organization is looking into cases of severe acute hepatitis in children in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain the agency said on Friday. ...

The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is continuing to cause high Covid case numbers in the UK. It comes at a time when restrictions have all but ended and the Government has scrapped the universal provision of free Covid tests. The legal requirement to self-isolate after testing positive has also been dropped, with Boris Johnson instead asking people to exercise personal responsibility. Here’s what you should do if you catch the virus, and how long you can be contagious for. When are you most contagious with Covid? For previous variants of Covid-19, such as Alpha and Delta, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said symptoms could begin to develop anywhere between two days and two weeks after infection. However, the incubation period – the time between infection and symptoms appearing – fo...

You may be well aware of the benefits of vitamin C and know how vitamin D can positively affect your body, however, you might not be as familiar with vitamin K—specifically, both vitamin K1 and vitamin K2. "Vitamin K is typically not a vitamin that is supplemented frequently in our society," Lon Ben-Asher, MS, RD, LD/N with Pritikin Longevity Center tells Eat This, Not That!, "Vitamin K1 is the main form that may be supplemented as opposed to Vitamin K2, however, most people obtain enough from their eating patterns. While most of our Vitamin K1 intake comes from dark, green leafy vegetables, Vitamin K2 is found in red meats, organ meats like liver, and eggs." Related: The #1 Best Juice to Drink Every Day, Says Science Now that you're more familiar with...