A new bird flu mutation of H5N1 has been discovered in a patient in the US state of Louisiana. Public health officials are ...
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation's first severe ...
The U.S. hasn’t learned lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 ...
Bird flu could be mutating to become more transmissible to humans, scientists have warned, as the US reported its first ...
The CDC warns samples of the bird flu virus show signs of mutations that could make it more transmissible to humans. The CDC ...
Health officials are alarmed by a mutated H5N1 bird flu virus in a Louisiana patient, raising concerns about potential human ...
In an unprecedented turn of events, H5N1 began infecting dairy cattle for the first time globally in early 2024.
An analysis posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on its website Thursday found that a small percentage of the virus detected in the patient's throat had genetic changes that ...
The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s ...