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...
While he said people can get infected and that it is possible to get sick and die from it, the virus itself would have to mutate in some way to become highly contagious among humans. The contagion risk increases when a strain of avian influenza mixes with another flu virus that is more ...
Reports on the capability of the bird flu virus strain H5N1, which was taken from the Oita site in Japan, to infect humans. Virulence of the strain; Tests on the virus to relate cause of outbreaks in South Korea; Measures taken by the Japanese government to protect farmers....
Since March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that 52 people have been infected by the H5N1 virus. Dairy cattle were the source for 30 of those cases, poultry for 21. The source of one more case in Missouri remains unknown. California Bird flu virus...
Afterbird flu jumped to dairy cowsin March, the H5N1 virus hasspread among cattleacrossnine different states, stoking fears about the potential impact of the virus on humans. Public health officials are closely monitoringfor any signs H5N1 is mutating into a form that could spread from human to...
Bird flu reportedly prompts another raw milk recall Dec. 14, 2024 But as we have seen withother influenza strains, the virus continues to evolve. There have been reports of humans beinginfected without a clear animal contact. A research paper this month reported thatH5N1 is now just one mutat...
Four new human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, infection in the state of Colorado have been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing the total cases to nine since 2022. ...
根据空前“The symptoms in humans are similar to those of other types of flu: a temperature, cough, headache, chills, aching muscles and a runny or blocked nose and sneezing.(人类的感染症状与其他类型流感的症状相似:发烧、咳嗽、头痛、发冷、肌肉酸痛、流鼻涕或鼻塞以及打喷嚏。)”讲人类感染此病毒后...
for concern. However, human infection with bird flu is rare overall. The virus can be spread from birds to humans and a few cases of human-to-human transmission have been reported. Bird flu in humans that is caused by these two strains is fatal in over 50% of people who are infected....
. Bird flu cannot usually be passed from human to human. Scientists are concerned that the virus may one day mutate(变异) and acquire the ability to spread in people. What are the symptoms? The symptoms in humans are similar to those of other types of flu: a temperature, cough, headache...