Bird flu confirmed in rats for 1st time, USDA says

Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time, USDA says
Bird flu has been detected in rats for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed Wednesday. Four black rats were confirmed to have H5N1 avian flu in late January in Riverside County,
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
Uncertainty about bird flu effort after USDA job cuts that included mistaken firings
The firings of thousands of USDA employees included some who the department acknowledged were essential to bird flu effort and are being recalled
USDA tries to reverse mistaken firing of bird flu response workers
The department is trying to rehire the employees as avian influenza causes egg prices to soar and as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes sweeping cuts to government agencies.
USDA says it is trying to rehire bird flu experts the agency accidentally fired
USDA said it's trying to rescind the firings this weekend of several employees who had worked on the bird flu.
USDA trying to rehire employees working on bird flu
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scrambling to rehire workers who had been working on the government's response to the bird flu after they were fired as part of the Trump administration's mass federal firings.
USDA rushing to rescind mistaken firings of key bird flu response personnel
Firings of USDA employees who coordinated bird flu response were accidental, NBC quotes an agency spokesperson as saying
USDA Admits Firing People Working On Bird Flu Was A Mistake
The Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that it’s trying to hire back fired employees who’d been working on the government’s response to bird flu ― a growing outbreak that’s caused egg prices to soar,
The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course
The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."
USDA suspends scholarship program at historically Black colleges, website shows
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended a college scholarship program for students from rural and underserved ...
USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
USDA worker in Ames, her job cut, says she was aiding scientists in bird flu battle
Also caught up in the job cuts was Ron Gregory. He worked for a USDA plant protection and quarantine office in Wyoming, but ...
USDA says it will release $20 million of frozen farmer funds
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will release approximately $20 million in funding for previously approved contracts that ...
Bird flu vaccine gets conditional license from USDA as egg prices spike
A vaccine could help stop the spread of bird flu in poultry after millions of birds have died from the virus in the past few ...
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USDA: ‘About a dozen’ administrative jobs cut at federal research facility in Manhattan
Roughly a dozen employees were let go this month at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, as part of the ongoing reduction of the federal workforce.
USDA fires 2,000 Forest Service employees amid budget constraints
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a statement regarding the firing of approximately 2,000 probationary, ...
Former USDA workers warn cuts could harm RI farmers, groceries
Five former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees told 12 News they had worked for the federal agency’s Warwick ...