Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, ... Aug. 19, 2024 — The ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

Is influenza a greater concern to pigs and people in light of the Oct. 30 USDA announcement that H5N1 was detected for the first time ever in a pig from a backyard Oregon farm? If so, how?

the total number of people infected with the avian influenza H5N1 in 2024 now stands at 36. "To date, [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)] has confirmed infection of 16 ...

Vasso Apostolopoulos, an immunologist at RMIT University in Australia, explained in an email that the H5N1 virus in Cambodia belongs to a different branch of the influenza family tree. Genetic ...

Washington public health officials were already investigating human cases of H5N1 bird flu. Several workers at a farm experiencing an avian influenza ... U.S. -- Kristine de Leon covers consumer ...

Here are three ways in which H5N1 surveillance is about to get more difficult. The risk of more infections and maybe worse, co-infections There’s a reason why influenza attacks more commonly in ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Romania has reported an outbreak of avian influenza among poultry, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the ...

H5N1 is a type of influenza that’s rare in humans but is highly contagious and deadly in several species of animals, including poultry and dairy cattle, raising fears that it could mutate and ...

The first confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza in a U.S. pig has been reported by the USDA. The infected pig, part of a backyard farm with mixed livestock, showed no illness but tested positive.

H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a pig in ... as ‘swine flu’ – and have been implicated as the source of other influenza outbreaks. The mammals have been described as “mixing vessels ...