Cat food contaminated with bird flu found in the US
Authorities and Northwest Naturals have strongly advised consumers who purchased the recalled product to discard it ...
Mutations discovered in first severe human bird flu case in the US: What we know so far
A severe case of bird flu in Louisiana has led to the discovery of mutations in the H5N1 virus, which may help it bind more ...
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CDC: Bird flu likely mutated in a Louisiana patient
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
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Bird flu mutated inside US patient, raising concern
An analysis posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on its website Thursday found that a small percentage of the virus detected in the patient's throat had genetic changes that ...
CDC: Bird flu virus shows mutations in first severe human case
Growing concerns surrounding the transmission of H5N1 bird flu. The CDC reports that samples collected from a severely ill ...
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Bird flu virus in patient likely mutated to be more transmissible, CDC says
The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s infection.
We ‘have our head in the sand’: Health experts warn US isn’t reacting fast enough to threat of bird flu
A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of H5N1 bird flu show the virus likely mutated in the patient to potentially ...
Flu cases continue to rise in Tennessee amidst holiday season
The Tennessee Influenza Weekly Report shows that illness and positive lab tests are both up from the previous week.
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The CDC reports Flu cases are on the rise in Georgia
We are in the heart of flu season and according to the Center for Disease Control, Georgia has reported high influenza levels ...
City of Newton: Dozens of geese deaths likely due to bird flu
Following an alert in early December from Kansas game wardens about geese carrying bird flu into Kansas, the City of Newton ...