Firings of USDA employees who coordinated bird flu response were accidental, NBC quotes an agency spokesperson as saying

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years.

The deaths of two seals with bird flu marks the first time the disease has been found in mammals at a National Trust site, the charity has confirmed. It said influenza of avian origin was detected in two seals at Blakeney Point, Norfolk, after four of the animals were found dead.

The Buttonwood Park Zoo said in a social media post that the "beloved" seal named Blue likely got the avian flu by coming into contact with an infected wild bird. "Avian flu conti