Five years after the pandemic, the world is poorly prepared for another one
In Europe, ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy herds in 17 US states from North Carolina to California and has just been ...
Community Focus: How does bird flu spread, and how is it impacting Americans?
Maria Peterson, an assistant professor of animal science at the University of Rhode Island, joined 12 News at 4 to talk about how avian flu spreads and how the virus is affecting both our animals ...
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Five Years After COVID’s Onset, the Republican Party Wages War Against Vaccines
Despite the ongoing spread of COVID, measles and bird flu, Trump has handed power to anti-vaxxers and vaccine skeptics.
The pandemic propelled the N95 to international stardom. What’s next?
Minnesota-based 3M still ships millions of respirators, though health care is not the major market it briefly was.
Five years after COVID-19 pandemic: Are we ready for the next health crisis?
As Texas faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, health officials say the anniversary serves as a moment to assess ...
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Your Neighbor Has Backyard Chickens. Should You Be Worried?
The latest outbreak of bird flu has upended egg, poultry, and dairy operations, sickened dozens of farmworkers, and killed at ...
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The death of a beloved wild burrowing owl may augur the next pandemic
Avian flu is claiming the lives of iconic San Francisco Bay wildfowl, and the Trump administration can hardly be trusted to ...
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Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal
Michael Osterholm is the guy you call when you want to find out if that measles outbreak is going to explode or if humans ...
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Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. remains vulnerable to another crisis
The government's response to the coronavirus fueled vaccine skepticism and backlash to public health mandates. New strategies ...
‘Bank on the fact’ that more pandemics are coming. Here’s why, and are we ready?
Despite scientific advancements made during the COVID pandemic, growing vaccine hesitancy and the politicization of public health leave the U.S. vulnerable to future pandemics, according to experts ...
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Opinion: Make America Infected Again?
Five years after New York was decimated by a novel virus, the eerie drumbeat of strange infections and diseases echo in our ...
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Speeding Up Subtyping May Catch More Bird Flu
In response to this season’s high flu activity and the ongoing avian flu outbreaks, the Centers for Disease Control and ...