Four new cases of avian influenza were detected in farmworkers in Washington state this week, the latest in a drumbeat of human infections cropping up across the U.S. as the virus continues to spread among farm animals.
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.
Four years ago, as attention locked onto COVID-19, another virus began circling the globe. A major outbreak of a new strain of bird flu — formally named Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 — has since killed millions of wild birds and infected poultry, dairy cattle, domestic cats and a small number of humans.
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.
They might be fun to look at, but experts want you to keep your distance from harbor seals in the Puget Sound region. This warning comes after a worldwide outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza jumped to local harbor seals.
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.
Community trust and health infrastructure are necessary to prepare for future public health crises.
Global health faculty members Keshet Ronen, Judy Wasserheit, and Peter Rabinowitz are 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.
The screening is a part of astudy at the Center for One Health Research that will help determine the rate of monkeypox transmission between humans and pets.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and environmental and occupational health science at the UW, is interviewed.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of environmental and occupational health science at the UW, says Gov. Inslee's positive test result for COVID-19 is a reminder that we are not out of the woods when it comes to the pandemic and people need to continue to be careful.