“The changes observed were likely generated by replication of this virus in the patient with advanced disease rather than ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

The patient is in Louisiana and was exposed to backyard flocks sick with H5N1. According to information from the CDC, infected birds spread bird flu through their spit, snot and poop. Other ...

Yet, despite H5N1’s high fatality of 52% since 2003, there have been no deaths so far. While 63 cases in the U.S. have been mild, on December 18, the CDC reported that a patient in Louisiana had ...

The strain of H5N1 bird flu that infected that patient is different from the one that has infected cattle, poultry and farmworkers for most of this year, CDC said, though it is similar to one ...

(WTVA) — Poultry in south Mississippi tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu, the Mississippi Department of ... According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the public health ...

The case was identified through testing at Iowa’s State Hygienic Laboratory and was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new case pushes ... Over the past several ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – On Monday, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department confirmed two cases of H5N1 bird flu in two domesticated cats in the county. The source of the ...

The CDC conducts random surprise sanitary inspections on cruise ships, scoring the ship on a scale from zero to 100. The review looks at common spaces such as pools and activity centers ...

The CDC reports that there's been a sharp increase in cases in more than a dozen states with hospitalization for the flu also on the rise. Advertisement About Our Ads ...

GENEVA - The global public health risk of influenza A (H5N1) viruses is currently low, with infection risks for occupationally exposed groups ranging from low to moderate, according to a joint ...

Digitally-colourised, negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicting influenza A virions A single mutation in the H5N1 strain of avian influenza that is infecting cattle ...