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Cows have human flu receptors, study shows, raising stakes on bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 7 days agoWorkers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an infection of the udder. What they found –...
Exploring the Link between Sociality and the Marmot Gut Microbiome
The Scientist· 10 hours agoGut microbes protect an animal from pathogens and help extract essential nutrients from the food it...
RI nursing home patients can be violent with each other. What can be done?
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoA majority of discharges from nursing homes were prompted by "endangering behavior," specifically...
Is 'herd immunity' in intensive care doing more harm than good?
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoApproximately one ICU patient in four will acquire an infection, most commonly pneumonia (in 20%) or...
Smoking and ear infections: What to know
Medical News Today· 6 days agoSmoking and secondhand smoke can affect the immune system and cause ear infections in both adults and children. Learn more about the link between smoking...
Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their...
LiveScience· 5 days agoPapua New Guineans, who have been genetically isolated for millennia, carry unique genes that helped...
Do Hot Summer Temperatures Weaken the Immune System?
Scientific American· 1 day agoA hot day might not seem like a threat that the immune system would need to deal with. A team of scientists recently untangled how short-term heat...
US government announces new financial incentives for farms to stem the spread of bird flu in dairy...
CNN.com· 6 days agoNewly announced financial incentives to farms to help stem the spread of bird flu in dairy cattle...
Researchers conduct first-ever study to characterize microbiota in saliva of weaned piglets
Phys.org· 22 hours agoAccording to the researchers, this was the first study ever to characterize the microbial...
Verily Team Finds H5N1 Flu Virus in Wastewater as CDC's Expanded Surveillance Plan Takes Shape
GenomeWeb News· 6 days agoScientists at Verily, an Alphabet health technology company, recently developed a digital PCR method to detect highly pathogenic H5N1 in wastewater and subsequently discovered the virus in samples ...