Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...
One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...
Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...
Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...
Health officials have identified another possible case of bird flu in a child — this time in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...
Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...
This latest outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), confirmed in domestic ducks in Austin, has prompted ...