Bird Flu Virus Mutation in First U.S. Severe Human Case May Increase Transmission in People
The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
US has first severe bird flu case. When should we start to worry?
Public concern over bird flu ratcheted up this week as the H5N1 virus continued its sweep through the nation's dairy and poultry farms and the first American was hospitalized with a severe infection.
Will bird flu trigger a human pandemic?
Severe outbreak in US among animals, with some human cases, causes worry but there's good reason to believe bird flu isn't the next Covid-19.
Could cats help bird flu hop to humans?
But while the current risk from our fuzzy feline friends is considered very low, public health officials nonetheless have been warning this month that free-roaming cats could be yet another fellow mammal that will enable bird flu to hop to humans, maybe as much or more so than dairy cows or pigs.
Bird flu virus likely mutated within a Louisiana patient, CDC says
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the illness in the United States
Mutations Observed In First Severe Human Bird Flu Case In US, CDC Says
First Severe Bird Flu Case Confirmed In USNotably, these mutations weren’t present in the bird samples, suggesting they developed after the virus jumped to the patient.The CDC reassures the public that the overall risk remains low,
Concerning Bird Flu Virus Mutations Found in Severely Ill Patient
Samples from a hospitalized patient in Louisiana show changes that could make the H5N1 virus spread more easily between humans
CDC releases new report on bird flu mutations in humans
The CDC warns samples of the bird flu virus show signs of mutations that could make it more transmissible to humans. The CDC says it appears the H5N1 virus contained mutations in the Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness.
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