Suzy Khimm

6 days ago | today.com | Meghan Holohan |Suzy Khimm

/ Source: TODAYBefore Thanksgiving last year, Colton George, then 9, became very ill. “I was going to the bathroom like five or six times a day,” Colton told NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis. “My stomach was like cramping really bad.” A day after playing basketball, Colton’s pain intensified, and his worried parents took him to the hospital. There, they learned what caused Colton’s symptoms. Colton George is feeling better after experiencing life-threatening complications from E.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Suzy Khimm |Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

The outbreak of bird flu that has been ravaging farms nationwide had started to slow over the past few weeks — butas wild birds migrate north, scientists say the virus may follow.   At the same time, the United States will have fewer people leading the national effort to stop avian influenza.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Suzy Khimm

The outbreak of bird flu that has been ravaging farms nationwide had started to slow over the past few weeks — but as wild birds migrate north, scientists say the virus may follow. At the same time, the United States will have fewer people leading the national effort to stop avian influenza.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Suzy Khimm

MATTESON, Ill. — This is what bird flu looks like.  The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.  On the floor, wood chip bedding has soaked up most of the blood from the birds slaughtered to prevent further spread of infection.  Stray feathers litter the ground. A few remnants of beige eggshells crunch underfoot.  There used to be 3,000 hens on Kakadoodle Farm — scratching, pecking, following the farmworkers around.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Suzy Khimm

Jonah Ulmer was the federal government’s foremost authority on tiny invasive pests that most Americans have never heard of — but which can decimate crops across the U.S. Known as thrips and psyllids, the gnat-sized insects often sneak into the country on imported flowers and produce — and it was the job of Ulmer and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to identify and quarantine highly destructive species that appear on perishable goods during the inspection process required...