UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first
"Globally, we continue to see that mammals can be infected with avian influenza A (H5N1)," Meera Chand, Emerging Infection Lead at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said in a statement. In the US, the Department of Agriculture has documented hundreds of infections in wild and captive mammals, from cats to bears, raccoons, and harbor seals.
UK detects bird flu in sheep for the first time
The first UK H5N1-type bird flu case in sheep has been confirmed in Yorkshire as authorities intensify efforts to avoid the mass outbreaks of the disease seen in US livestock. The infection was identified after “routine surveillance of co-located livestock on a premises where avian influenza had been confirmed in captive birds”,
The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.
The new study shows that this aging process may not inactivate the H5N1 virus, however, and it underscores the risk of consuming raw or undercooked foods during the bird flu outbreak, which ...
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As the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues, scientists are working to better understand the virus's threat to human ...
H5N1 viruses have circulated in birds for many years, but a new version, called clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 virus emerged more recently, and has since spread among cattle.
An H5N1 bird flu mutation associated with increased infectiousness and disease severity has been found in two cats. Since the beginning of this year, more than 50 cats have been infected with H5N1 ...
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