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How Worried Should We Be About the Latest Bird Flu Mutation?
A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.
Officials say bird flu likely mutated inside Louisiana resident
Federal health officials say that not only has a Louisiana resident contracted the first severe case of bird flu in the U.S., ...
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Bird flu Q&A: What to know to help protect yourself and your pets
Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying ...
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CDC Reports Potentially Troublesome Mutations in Bird Flu Found in Louisiana Patient
Federal health officials have confirmed unsettling new details about the first United States case of severe bird flu, ...
Bird flu virus likely mutated within a Louisiana patient, CDC says
The CDC stressed there has been no known transmission of the virus from the Louisiana patient to anyone else. The agency said its findings about the mutations were “concerning,” but the risk to the ...
Bird flu virus in Louisiana patient likely mutated to be more transmissible, CDC says
The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s ...
Bird Flu Virus Likely Mutated In US Patient Who Contracted Severe Case: What Does This Mean?
Health experts said while the new finding is concerning, it is not a cause for alarm as the virus has been causing sporadic, ...
We ‘have our head in the sand’: Health experts warn US isn’t reacting fast enough to threat of bird flu
The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird ...
Bird Flu 'Wake Up Call': Scientists Issue Warning After Mutation
Scientists are issuing warnings after a bird flu patient showed mutations that could increase the transmission of the virus.
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CDC: H5N1 mutations in severely ill patient could boost spread, but risk remains low
The genetic analysis of the H5N1 avian flu virus in specimens from the nation's first severely ill hospitalized patient in ...
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Concerning Bird Flu Virus Mutations Found in Severely Ill Patient
Samples from a hospitalized patient in Louisiana show changes that could make the H5N1 virus spread more easily between ...
Bird flu ‘may be mutating to become more transmissible to humans’
A Louisiana woman with the first severe case of bird flu in the US had a mutated form of the disease that may make it more ...