A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...
Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.
Scientists believe the mutations may allow the virus to better bind to receptors in the upper airways of humans.
“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...
The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, ...
The CDC said that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated but the risk remains low ...
The patient was likely infected after having contact with sick and dead birds in a backyard flock, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this month.
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country's first severe case of H5N1 bird flu show the virus likely mutated in the patient to become ...
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