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Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)
September 28, 2025, 4:03 pm
Hebrew U-led research team calls for global wildlife tracking to help curb pandemics
Biologging animals’ movement and temperature to spot diseases that spread from creatures to people said much more cost-effective in reducing human deaths than taking later measures
By Sue Surkes
This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024, shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (blue). (CDC/NIAID via AP)
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
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Eggs stacked on shelves at the Osher Ad supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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
By Michael Horovitz
Noam head Avi Maoz speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 28, 2022 (Courtesy Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
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
By ToI Staff
A 'Keep Out' sign at Moshav Beit Herut in central Israel warns of a bird flu outbreak, November 28, 2022. (Agriculture Ministry)
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
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Agriculture Ministry inspectors at a coop on Kibbutz Rosh Tsurim, where bird flu was discovered, on March 8, 2011. (Gershon Elinson / FLASH90)
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
By Sara Serfaty
Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)
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
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: Despite Omicron, the majority of Israel's COVID beds are empty, like in this illustrative image from Jerusalem in October. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
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
By ToI Staff
People visit a promenade in the city of Tiberias, next to the Sea of Galilee on January 30, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
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
By ToI Staff
Workers in protective gear in Moshav Givat Yoav, in northern Israel, following an outbreak of the bird flu, December 29, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
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
By ToI Staff
Gathering the carcasses of wild cranes killed by avian flu at the Hula Lake Nature Reserve in northern Israel, December 27. (Hadas Kahaner, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
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
By Nathan Jeffay
Gathering the carcasses of wild cranes killed by avian flu at the Hula Lake Nature Reserve in northern Israel, December 27. (Hadas Kahaner, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
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
By Sue Surkes
The carcass of a crane, infected by avian flu, at the Hula Valley Nature Reserve in northern Israel, on December 23, 2021. (Shlomit Shavit, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
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’
By ToI Staff
Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with COVID-19, in Modi'in, on December 26, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
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
By ToI Staff
Filthy conditions at a northern Israeli egg farm, where chickens live in cages above piles of their own excrement. (Screenshot)
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
By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff
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