Human health, animal health and environmental agencies are working together to assess conditions, prevent further spread, and better understand the strain. Dr. Peter Rabinowitz offers some insight on the One Health approach to addressing Avian Flu.  

An outbreak of bird flu has spread to harbor seals off the coast of Washington in the first documented instance of marine mammals dying from the disease on the West Coast.

Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

India’s southern state of Kerala is currently facing an outbreak of the rare but potentially serious Nipah virus, with at least two deaths so far. Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

There’s been at least one report of a person with monkeypox who may have passed the virus to a dog. Now, University of Washington scientists want to know how big a threat this is for pets in the Puget Sound region.

Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.