Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...
The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...
Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...
Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...
One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...
Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...
A recent bird flu death has sparked fears that a "brand-new virus" could potentially mutate under the right conditions and ...
Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...
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