Trump Battles California Over Water. Plus, a Bird Flu Pandemic?
President Donald Trump and California officials fight over water. Scientists raise concerns about the bird flu’s pandemic ...
First Reported H5N9 Bird Flu Outbreak In US As H5N1 Keeps Spreading
While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...
Can the U.S. head off a potential bird flu pandemic? UW-Madison researchers weigh in
As bird flu continues to threaten animals and public health, the U.S. government has stepped up its response. Experts says it ...
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Will bird flu spark a human pandemic? Scientists say the risk is rising
The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...
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Deadly H5N1 bird flu becomes an 'existential threat' to biodiversity worldwide
The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...
To detect contagious bird flu, can genomic surveillance shift to sewers?
Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already ...
What we can VERIFY about bird flu amid current outbreak
Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.
As bird flu becomes a growing threat, Moderna is awarded $590M to develop mRNA pandemic influenza vaccines
No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...
Is bird flu the next pandemic? What to know after the first H5N1 death in the US
With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...
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No, we're not 'one mutation away' from an H5N1 bird flu pandemic. Here are the facts
However, none of this means we are "one mutation away" from a pandemic. The first highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of subtype H5N1 emerged in China in 1996. Since then, H5 viruses have ...
Rare bird flu strain found in California raises potential of wider spread
First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...
Antibody treatment prevents severe bird flu in monkeys
The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.