As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday that six more human cases of infection: five in California and one in Oregon — the state’s first. A seventhpresumptive California caseis awaiting confirmation from the ...
an H5N1 expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, that showed the virus in the first reported dairy worker infection in Texas had acquired mutations that made it more severe in animals and allowed it to move more efficiently among them — via airborne respiration....
Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists. Nature. 2024 Nov 20. doi: 10.1038/d41586-024-03805-4.Khurana, S., Verma, N., McKinney, C., et al. Development of broadly neutralizing influenza vaccines using conserved epitopes: Challenges and future directions. ...
The findings, published Thursday, suggest that a small but not insignificant number of H5N1 infections are going undetected among people who work with dairy cows. Blood samples taken from 115 farm workers in Michigan and Colorado over the summer found evidence of a recent infection in eight indivi...
Drinking or accidentally inhaling raw milk containing bird flu virus may lead to illness. In addition, touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands after touching raw milk with bird flu virus may also lead to infection. Symptoms of bird flu infection in humans include eye redness or...
and the confirmed human infection in a farm worker in Texas, U.S. underscoring the need for clinicians to consider H5N1 bird flu in individuals with respiratory symptoms who have had contact with birds or livestock.Harris, EmilyJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
Though cases of infection are rare, cats seem especially susceptible to the bird flu virus, or Type A H5N1. Even before the cattle outbreak, there were feline cases linked to wild birds or poultry. Since March, dozens of cats have caught the virus. These include barn and feral cats, in...
"This infection does not change the H5N1 bird flu human health risk assessment for the U.S. general public, which CDC considers to be low," the agency said in astatement. According to the CDC, the person was diagnosed with infection after prolonged contact with dairy cattle...
While it won’t protect you from H5N1 bird flu per se, immunization could play a pivotal part in warding off a bird flu pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The current avian influenza outbreak led to the infection of 66 people in 10 states in ...
Which illness is known as a viral upper respiratory tract infection?See Answer What are the side effects of influenza A (H5N1) vaccine? Common side effects of influenza A (H5N1) vaccine include: Injection site reactions including: Pain