FDA Lay's off bird flu leadership
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Officials said cuts impacted virtually all of the leadership team in the Center for Veterinary Medicine's office of the director, except for the director herself, Tracey Forfa.
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The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies on Tuesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, with security guards barring entry to som...
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The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the Food and Drug Administration's bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according...
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By most indications, the avian influenza outbreak that has washed over U.S. farms is at an ebb. Experts don’t seem hopeful, however, that the problem has taken care of itself.
Among those laid off were employees in a center that has played a key role in the response to the bird flu outbreak, according to three FDA staffers.
Bird flu in cats typically causes severe neurological symptoms, including blindness and seizures, along with breathing issues and heavy discharge from the nose and eyes, often resulting in death, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Amid high egg prices and bird flu cases soaring across the country, Saratoga County residents are tending to their own flocks.
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. “This is how pandemics start.”
House Democrats are investigating Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his bird flu response, which they called “dangerous and reckless.” In a Tuesday letter addressed to Kennedy,
The National Wastewater Surveillance System’s funding expires at the end of fiscal year 2025, just as bird flu heats up.
The US Health Secretary wants to let bird flu spread across the nation's farms without intervention, and then breed the chickens that survive. It hasn't been government policy to let the virus spread among America's chickens instead of culling sick ones,
Billions of birds are expected to travel across the country during spring migration, but this could result in the spread of a bird flu.
The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, chickens and other birds.
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