Birx added that her greatest fear is someone getting infected with bird flu during the regular seasonal flu, potentially ...

Genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus has the capacity to mutate in ways that could make it more transmissible to ...

A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of ...

The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with ...

Scientists are issuing warnings after a bird flu patient showed mutations that could increase the transmission of the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

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.

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Follow Newsweek's live blog for updates.

In 2024, the CDC reported 13 bacterial and viral outbreaks on ships. Most incidents were of norovirus, a highly contagious bug that quickly spreads through tainted food, water, surfaces ...

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