Cooperative Extension Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

In a briefing to member states today, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today urged countries to step up their actions to battle avian flu in the face of an ongoing surge of poultry losses, more frequent spillovers to mammals, and detrimental effects on the food supply and prices.

In other developments, New York City health officials shared more details about their investigation into severe cat illnesses from H5N1 avian flu, including a potential role of contaminated food and cat-to-cat spread of the virus. Also, two teams of scientists reported new findings about the pathogenicity of the cattle H5N1 genotype and antiviral treatment strategies.

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