Hospital workers reported respiratory symptoms after encountering a Missouri patient with H5N1 who had not been exposed to ...

STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

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Antibody blood test results expected later this month may help answer a crucial question: Is there human-to-human ...

The full study with migration maps can be looked up at “Detection and spread of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the Antarctic Region”, in Nature Communications. Article number ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

U.S. health officials have run into obstacles in their efforts to determine whether a Missouri person infected with H5N1 bird flu passed the virus on to others, causing a delay that will likely ...

The California Department of Public Health is tracking a possible case of human bird flu originating in the Central Valley.

Officials this year have identified 16 people infected with H5N1 avian influenza. All have had mild symptoms. There has been no human-to-human spread of the virus. If that happened, public health ...

Since most of the seven people weren’t tested for bird flu, it’s not yet known whether any of them were infected with the virus or another pathogen. The Missouri patient, who didn’t have ...