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In light of avian flu, seasonal flu, CDC urges clinicians to speed influenza A subtyping
Due to ongoing sporadic H5N1 avian flu infections and brisk levels of seasonal flu activity, the US Centers for Disease ...
CDC urges hospitals to fast-track bird flu testing
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...
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New Insights Into H5N1 Variability in Human Mutations
Mutations in one of the first human-isolated strains of H5N1 bird flu in the US were identified by the Texas Biomedical ...
News Medical13d
Human protein MxA restricts H5N1, but virus mutations raise alarms
Human MxA protein suppresses mammalian H5N1 virus replication, but emerging mutations may enable partial evasion, raising ...
US announces new funds for mRNA vaccines, fast tracks bird flu tests
Companies including Moderna and Pfizer are working on mRNA vaccines for bird flu. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Washington Post13d
First U.S. bird flu death reported in Louisiana patient, officials say
A Louisiana man has become the first person in the United States to die of avian influenza ... respiratory illness related to the H5N1 bird flu virus. The patient, whom people familiar with ...
Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu? Here's how to tell
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...
Science Daily5d
Influenza News
The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same ... of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating ...
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No, we're not 'one mutation away' from an H5N1 bird flu pandemic. Here are the facts
The first highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of subtype H5N1 emerged in China in 1996 ... Since March 2024, when ...
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Study finds certain H5N1 strains in cattle linked to milder human illness; other variants remain a concern
Dispatch: Comparison of Contemporary and Historic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ... H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus was detected in cattle, which spread to herds in 16 states across the United ...