Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.
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President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration announced on Friday that it will allocate $306 million to bolster the nation’s bird flu response before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The bird flu virus found in a severely ill patient hospitalized in the United States has mutated to become better adapted to human airways, though there is no evidence it has spread beyond the individual, authorities said.
According to WHO, the 59-year-old had died on April 24 after developing a fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea, nausea and general discomfort.
The UN health agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says the H5NI avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission.
China has notified the World Health Organisation (WHO), that a woman infected with the H3N8 bird flu died in March.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said that Kano, Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger states have reported…