All posts tagged "Bird Flu"

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s suggestion that farmers allow bird flu to spread among their flocks was met with disbelief by Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL), who appeared on CNN Thursday.

The New York Times reported Kennedy's comments on Fox News that farmers "should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it."

Anchor John Berman began, "One of the things that he suggested was possibly — and he didn't use these words — but, you know, 'let it rip' in a few places, let the chickens pass it on in certain confined areas to see which ones might be immune, so that they can then try to breed the ones that are immune and expand from there. I saw on your Twitter feed you had some criticism over that." ...

A two-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, becoming the country's fourth confirmed fatality -- all children -- from the deadly virus this year, health authorities said Monday.

An Indonesian woman living near the capital Jakarta has died of bird flu, the health ministry said, the latest death from H5N1 in the country hardest hit by the virus.

Nepal on Thursday banned the sale of chicken after health workers found cases of bird flu at several poultry farms on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, officials said.

Chinese authorities on Thursday reported a man in the eastern province of Zhejiang has been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, the tenth human case of the disease which has claimed three lives.