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Seattle policemen wearing cloth face masks handed out by the American Red Cross during the Spanish flu pandemic, December 1918. The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918 with the recording of the case of Albert Gitchell, an army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, United States, despite there having been cases before him ...
Perhaps the most notable is the so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates “an avian-like H1N1 virus” killed 50 million ...
The spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cows has worried health experts, who say it increases the risk of the virus becoming a greater threat to humans. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times)
The birds currently traveling south from the Arctic are carrying a slightly different variant of H5N1 — called D1.1 or D1.2 — that has an altered take on the several of the flu's viral segments.
Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species. Bos indicus (or Bos taurus indicus) cattle, commonly called zebu, are adapted to hot climates and originated in the tropical parts of the world such as India, Sub-saharan Africa, China, and Southeast Asia.
On August 9, the Colorado Department of Public Health reported bird flu in domestic cats, including indoor-only cats. [88] In late August, H5N1 had spread to dairy cow herds in California. [89] On August 22, the first person in the U.S. who didn't work with poultry or dairy cows was hospitalized with the H5 influenza virus.
When bird flu was first identified in cows in Texas earlier this year, barn cats were dying on infected dairy farms from drinking raw milk, Davis said. Research has also shown ferrets and mice ...
In the worldwide 1918 flu pandemic, "physicians tried everything they knew, everything they had ever heard of, from the ancient art of bleeding patients, to administering oxygen, to developing new vaccines and sera (chiefly against what we now call Hemophilus influenzae – a name derived from the fact that it was originally considered the ...