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67 cases of H5N1 bird flu have been recorded in humans since the beginning of 2024, according to the CDC, 38 of which were in California, 10 in Colorado, 11 in Washington, and the rest scattered ...
The H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected birds and mammals around the world. As of June 2025, 70 people have been infected ...
Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, primarily affects birds and some cattle. However, a new study has shown that the H5N1 strain can spread through air, raising the risk of infections ...
But for the H5N1 2.3.4.4b strain (A/Texas/37/2024) isolated from the first human infection with a bovine H5N1 virus in the United States, researchers found that just a single amino acid mutation ...
A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...
That said, with cases of H5N1 in humans rising, the discovery highlights the need for proactive surveillance of evolution in H5N1 and similar avian flu strains and that even a single mutation ...
Experts have long recognized that the H5N1 virus that causes the disease has pandemic potential, just like COVID-19 or swine flu. In the past three years, ... New avenues for evolution.
California researchers say the world may be just one genetic tweak away from human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a worrisome mutation that could open the door to widespread ...
Evolution is a game of odds. And as it is, each infection gives bird flu a spin at the wheel to become something utterly terrible. But, if it does, it likely does so far from any gathering of ...
Since March, when the H5N1 virus was first detected in U.S. dairy cattle, there have been more than a dozen cases of human infection that were traced back to contact with infected animals.
67 cases of H5N1 bird flu have been recorded in humans since the beginning of 2024, according to the CDC, 38 of which were in California, 10 in Colorado, 11 in Washington, and the rest scattered ...