To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and ...

To bolster the nation's preparedness for a pandemic, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a synthetic, nonhazardous genetic material to support the development and ...

The more H5N1 jumps between cows in a herd — which can contain thousands of animals — the more opportunities it has to acquire genetic changes that make it more dangerous to humans.

A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the potential for more human H5N1 infections. While the patient was recently ...

The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across ... which may allow the farm to keep its genetic strain of delicious ducks, with an optimal meat-to-fat ratio, alive long enough ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), multidrug-resistant pathogens caused over 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2020. And figures are rising, with projections pointing to antimicrobial ...

they have been reported in previous cases of A(H5N1) in other countries and most often during severe disease." Based on the discovery of these genetic changes in the virus, health officials ...

including increased disease severity and genetic changes in the virus. Meanwhile, the CDC is urging health care workers to accelerate testing for avian influenza A(H5N1) in patients hospitalized ...

In all but nine of the Washington cats, the genetic sequencing of their H5N1 virus matched up with samples taken from frozen turkey packaged in May and June by Oregon-based Northwest Naturals pet ...

The fate of a Canadian teenager who was infected with H5N1 bird flu in early November ... she has fully recovered. But genetic analysis of the virus that infected her body showed ominous mutations ...