to address unmet medical needs for the prevention of disease caused by pandemic influenza A virus H5N1. The FDA's fast-track program is designed to facilitate the development and expedite the ...

(USFWS photo) A report released in late March by the Journal of Wildlife Diseases has confirmed the discovery of the H5N1 (avian flu) virus in four New York bobcats. Three of the animals have survived ...

A three-year-old girl from Coahuila, a northern state in Mexico, has died from multiple organ failure caused by the H5N1 virus. Mexico has reported its first human fatality from the H5N1 bird flu, as ...

MEXICO CITY - A three-year-old girl has become Mexico’s first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, dying early on April 8 of multiple organ failure, health officials said. The girl from the ...

A three-year-old girl in the northern state of Coahuila died of multiple organ failure as a result of the H5NI virus, said the state’s health secretary, Eliud Aguirre, adding that no other suspected ...

India’s ongoing battle with bird flu has taken a serious turn, as the deadly H5N1 virus—once largely restricted to poultry—has begun infecting a wide range of non-avian species, including ...

Since its first description in 1959 in Scottish poultry farms, the A(H5N1) virus was subsequently identified in 1996 in intensively reared ducks and chickens from China, with the first human infection ...

A three-year-old girl has become Mexico's first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, health officials said on Tuesday. The girl from the northern state of Coahuila died of multiple organ failure after ...

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There, it could test the samples for avian influenza. Earlier, there was H1N1 (swine flu) but no mutation of the virus H5N1 (bird flu) occurred. Head of the Guntur Medical College microbiology ...

To slow the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza — such as the prevalent H5N1 strain — real-time reporting of current genome data is crucial. Yet “extensive delays” of 7.5 months or ...