An emerging strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spilled over from wild birds to dairy cows in the state of Nevada ...
A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...
"[That] doesn't mean that this mutation will be picked up, but what it means to me is that it's not that far away." He explained that H5N1 can also interact with "regular" seasonal flu viruses.
The Central Nevada Health District has reported the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in a human within the state.
The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...
Dr. Paulo H. Verardi, a virologist and head of the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science at the University of ...
When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns one ...
This is exactly the sort of scenario that makes viral evolution more likely, hastening the day when H5N1 achieves the very few mutations required for it to transmit easily from human-to-human.
The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...