Amber Dance

2 weeks ago | wfmz.com | Amber Dance

Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way for the current outbreak. Originally published on knowablemagazine.org, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

2 weeks ago | stacker.com | Amber Dance

As birds migrate south for the winter, they bring H5N1 to poultry farms. Most infected chickens will die, and the primary defense is culling. In the U.S., more than 166 million chickens have been culled since 2022, though a lull in cases led egg prices to dropin early March 2025. To prevent spread, biosecurity has become the key watchword. For poultry farmers, that means a variety of things such as limiting human interaction with flocks, washing hands and boots, and wearing face masks.

2 weeks ago | laconiadailysun.com | Amber Dance

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2 weeks ago | nature.com | Amber Dance

All around the world — in the oceans, the soil, your body — an invisible battle is raging. Earth’s vast population of roughly 1030 bacteria faces an unending onslaught from an even larger army of viruses, known as bacteriophages. The bacteria have a variety of defences at their disposal: they chop up viral components, deny the invaders key ingredients for replication and even shut down their own biological systems to halt infections, sacrificing themselves to protect nearby kin.

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | Amber Dance

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals — mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.