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California elephant seal pup swam 5,000 miles to Alaska and back. See her surprising journey
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoResearchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per satellite...
Ex-CDC Director Makes Alarming Bird Flu Prediction
HuffPost· 7 hours agoFormer CDC Director Robert Redfield suggested that a bird flu pandemic among humans is inevitable ― and would be extremely lethal. (Watch the video...
A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Here’s What It Might Look Like.
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoThe bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle has so far spilled over to just three farmworkers in the...
A Journey To Big Sur, California
Forbes· 5 days agoBig Sur, where the Santa Lucia mountains overlook the Pacific Ocean, is one of the most iconic places in California. The beautiful Central Coast area was...
Bird Flu (H5N1) Explained: Toddler Infected With Another Strain—Second Human Case In India
Forbes· 5 days agoHere’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently...
Thailand beat avian flu 20 years ago. What can we learn from their strategies?
NPR· 3 days agoThat’s the number seared in Prasert Auewarakul’s memory. It is the number of birds – mostly chickens – that were dead by the end of Thailand’s avian flu outbreak that started in late 2003. Some ...
A horse fell into a California pool and was stuck for hours. Here’s how it got out
The Fresno Bee· 6 hours agoThe rescue operation lasted more than three hours.
Scary-sounding new virus in the news? Here are the questions you should ask
The Conversation· 20 hours agoEach of these recent cases was caused by a different strain of influenza virus. In each case, it was an animal virus, which should not normally have turned up in humans at all. When stories ...