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December 18, 2024, 8:22 pm
Health officials report first severe human bird flu case in US
Louisiana man had been in contact with sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, reports Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and notes danger to general public still low
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January 24, 2023, 4:10 pm
Heavy yolk: Government announces 16% jump in price of regulated eggs
12-pack of large eggs to cost NIS 13.97 ($4.10), up from NIS 12.05 ($3.60); ministry links decision to global increases amid Ukraine war, says it’s necessary to prevent shortages
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December 5, 2022, 1:41 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 5: What does Netanyahu gain from extremist MK Avi Maoz?
Editor David Horovitz discusses the roles of the Noam party’s sole MK and other coalition issues; environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at pension funds’ investments and bird flu
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November 28, 2022, 8:36 pm
Bird flu detected in Israel in 2nd case within days
Nature authorities closely monitoring wild birds, weighing whether to stop feeding cranes in northern Israel to prevent crowding, avoid risk of last year’s mass infection
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Sue Surkes
November 22, 2022, 11:37 pm
Bird flu found in northern Israel, same strain as catastrophic 2021 outbreak
Turkeys in slaughterhouse near Beit She’an are first cases of avian influenza this winter; surrounding farms quarantined as authorities look to prevent spread to wild birds
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Sara Serfaty
January 7, 2022, 5:05 pm
Bird flu outbreak in northern Israel ebbs; no humans harmed, officials say
Agriculture Ministry notes ‘encouraging recovery’ over past two days; cleanup efforts at Hula Lake Reserve expected to finish next week ahead of migration season
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January 3, 2022, 2:02 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 3 – Omicron encroaches, and Israeli food tech expands
Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discusses the need for a local food technology plan, and health and science correspondent Nathan Jeffay offers an Omicron overview
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December 31, 2021, 7:15 pm
Expert warns avian flu to reach Sea of Galilee, posing danger to humans
But Health Ministry says tests have so far not found water to be polluted after flowing from Hula Lake Reserve, where 5,000 cranes have died
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December 30, 2021, 5:15 pm
Bird flu outbreak spreads to organic farm in northern Israel
H5N1 virus infects 5,500 chickens in community of Barak; Agriculture Ministry says it’s concerned about human infection
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December 29, 2021, 9:09 pm
Avian flu killing birds in Israel could jump to humans, warns epidemiologist
Prof. Amnon Lahad calls prospect of virus crossing species ‘very concerning,’ as Health Ministry advises Israelis to avoid sick birds and not to buy unregulated chicken, eggs
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Nathan Jeffay
December 28, 2021, 5:07 pm
Grim cleanup of cranes that died of bird flu begins in Hula Valley Reserve
Agriculture Ministry appeals to residents of northern moshav at epicenter of H5N1 outbreak to keep stray cats — potential carriers of virus — from wandering around poultry sheds
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Sue Surkes
December 27, 2021, 8:54 pm
Bennett holds security meeting on bird flu outbreak as disease continues to spread
PM consults with National Security Council on disease that’s ravaging wild and domestic birds in north, delivering what minister calls ‘worst blow to wildlife in Israel’s history’
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December 27, 2021, 2:26 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 27 – Omicron dominates and bird flu decimates
Health writer Nathan Jeffay discusses fast-approaching Omicron effects; environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at a fowl disease affecting wild and domestic birds, green successes
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December 26, 2021, 12:40 am
Hundreds of thousands of chickens to be culled as bird flu spreads; egg shortage due
Agriculture Ministry says it will kill 320,000 laying hens, in addition to the 244,000 that have already been culled in northern Israel in past week
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Sue Surkes
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ToI Staff
December 23, 2021, 8:29 pm
A fifth of wild cranes in Israel thought to be infected with fatal bird flu
Authorities expect to have to clear 25 to 30 tons of crane carcasses after H5N1 virus spread from northern moshav, where farmers failed to report poultry deaths on time
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Sue Surkes
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