In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in ...

Human MxA protein suppresses mammalian H5N1 virus replication, but emerging mutations may enable partial evasion, raising ...

Farmed mink can catch it, as can polar bears and seals ... across the U.S., and initial testing show these are " HPAI A(H5N1) viruses from clade 2.3.4.4," according to the CDC.

For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

Unique mutations in the H5N1 strain enhance replication in human cells and cause severe disease in mice. The virus has spread from birds to mammals, including dairy cows, and infected humans ...

More than 100 chickens, geese, ducks and other birds at the farm at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford have been culled after some of them tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu ...

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called it the first severe case in the U.S., though the risk to most of the ...

The finding highlights a key concern about the H5N1 strains of bird flu currently circulating in the U.S.: the speed at which the virus can mutate when introduced to a new host. Naturally found in ...

Since 2020, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza called H5N1 has been decimating flocks of domestic and wild birds. The epicenter is now in the US, where it’s spreading among dairy cows ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...