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First human death in Mexico from H5N2 influenza strain adds to bird flu anxiety
Daily Telegraph· 9 hours agoH5 viruses, a subtype of Influenza A or ‘bird flu’, primarily infect wild birds like ducks, geese,...
Bird flu is increasingly adapting to mammals
UC Newsroom· 2 hours agoThe study’s genomic analysis showed the virus is now evolving into separate avian and marine mammal clades in South America, which is unprecedented....
Pride month is here and mpox remains a threat, but vaccines are more readily available
CNN.com· 5 hours agoAs the LGBTQ+ community gears up for Pride celebrations this month, the US Centers for Disease...
Newly Found Dinosaur Seems to Have Had Arms Even Smaller Than T. Rex
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 hours ago(Fred Wierum/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0) Perhaps as skulls swelled in size, abelisaurids came to...
'Increased evidence that we should be alert': H5N1 bird flu is adapting to mammals in 'new ways'
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe disease killed more than 17,000 elephant seals, including 96% of pups born that season. Genetic...
New Bird Flu Change Sparks Scientists' Warning: 'Be Alert!'
Newsweek· 6 hours agoScientists are warning people to "be alert" as bird flu continues to adapt and change. This is...
Health officials keep eye on ‘FLiRT’ COVID variants that could lead to fall surge
Maryland Matters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWith Maryland nearing 1.5 million reported cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic,...
Mpox is on the rise in Australia. Here's what to know about the virus—and who should get vaccinated
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoVictoria has reported 24 cases this year, while Queensland saw 10 cases reported in May. There was previously a significant mpox outbreak in 2022, with a total of 144 cases across Australia.
Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAustralia has always been a biodiversity hotspot, with some gnarly extinct megafauna in its natural...
New dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe named Musankwa sanyatiensis
ABC7 News· 6 days agoResearchers say the remains date back to the Late Triassic period, approximately 210 million years...