Bird flu in humans highlights vulnerability of people to emerging diseasestext editorEmerging Infectious Diseases
Oregon’s first known human case has been confirmed. Authorities say all cases were transmitted from animals to humans; there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission. About 75% of wastewater sites monitored in California show evidence of H5. As H5N1 bird flu spreads among Califor...
Meanwhile, in what could be the first cases of bird flu spreading between humans in the United States, a group of potential H5N1 human infections in Missouri is being investigated by the CDC. Antibody tests to confirm H5N1 infections in that group are still pending. After a patient with bird...
The H5N1 virus has been spreading globally among birds since 2020, affectingmore than 130 millionin the U.S., whether by infection or by culling to protect domestic flocks. It has also been detected in other animals, includingbig catsandseals. Within ...
least one U.S. pig. Pigs, which contain receptors for both avian and human influenzas, can get simultaneously infected with both, exchange genes and create a novel strain that can more easily infect humans. This is what likely happened with the1918 flu pandemicand again withswine flu in ...
Two people have tested positive for avian influenza after being exposed to cows thought to be infected with the virus
The risk to humans comes from the possibility that one of these avian flu strains will infect some animal — a pig, for instance — that also is susceptible to human influenza, Schaffner said. “When the two of them are together in the pig, it's like being in a test tube. Those two...
New analysis of the version of bird flu which has spread to cattle on more than 100 farms in the US suggests that the virus has mutated, which could eventually lead to it being spread to humans by breathing.
Bird flu has been making headlines over the past month, resulting in millions of bird deaths, driving up poultry and egg prices, and raising public concern over potential human infections. According to the experts, however, bird flu is unlikely to become
The discovery of traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurized cow milk in the United States sparked questions over whether the disease could spread to humans, but experts say there is little risk from food contamination. Ad US authorities on Tuesday said that they had discovered traces ofbird f...