'Knocking on our door': Experts warn of bird flu's pandemic threat
Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing ...
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H5N1 bird flu is closer to gaining pandemic potential than we thought
The flu virus currently circulating in birds and dairy cows is already better at infecting people than earlier variants, and ...
Opinion: A bird flu pandemic would be one of the most foreseeable catastrophes in history
One recent study of 115 farmworkers found that about 7% of them showed signs of a recent, undetected H5N1 infection. They’d ...
Mutation in H5N1 Bird Flu Could Trigger Pandemic in Humans
A single mutation in the virus currently infecting poultry and dairy farms across the U.S. could help the it spread among humans.
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The Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Getting More Dangerous
If the bird flu changes enough to effectively infect, grow in, and jump between people,“that’s how a pandemic starts,” Paulson says. His team focused on the first step in that process ...