Bird flu. EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY JULY 25 The National Trust team of rangers clear deceased birds from Staple Island, one of the Outer Group of the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland, where the impact of Avian Influenza (bird flu) is having a devastating effect on one of the UK's best known and important seabird colonies with 3104 carcasses recovered by rangers so far. The National Trust, who care for the islands, have warned this number could be the "tip of the iceberg" as cliff nesting birds, including guillemots and kittiwakes, will have fallen and been lost to the sea. Picture date: Wednesday July 20, 2022. See PA story ANIMALS Farnes. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire URN:68020245 (Press Association via AP Images)
US to test shots against bird flu outbreak, as Biden administration weighs poultry vaccinations
A record 58 million birds — mostly commercially-raised poultry — have died in the outbreak so far, according to figures tallied by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service — either killed by the virus itself or put down in efforts to quash its transmission.
Every state has detected the virus spreading among wild birds and 47 have spotted them in poultry.
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