The disclosure that dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, has put virologists and researchers on high alert. Among other things, the news from the Nevada Department of Agriculture, suggests that driving the virus out of the U.S. cattle population won’t be […]
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping to humans. On Monday, officials in Louisiana announced that the person who had developed the country’s first severe H5N1 infection had died of the infection, […]
A person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu has died. The hospitalization, first announced Dec. 13marked the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States. H5N1 is a subtype of bird flu that’s been circulating among wild birds and poultry in the U.S. since 2021, and […]
The Louisiana resident infected with H5N1 bird flu is hospitalized in critical condition and suffering from severe respiratory symptoms, the Louisiana health department revealed Wednesday. The health department had reported the presumptive positive case on Friday and noted the person was hospitalized, as Ars reported. But a spokesperson had, at the time, declined to provide […]
A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flumarking the United States’ first severe case of the illness. In a statement released Wednesday (Dec. 18), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that, in total, 61 people in the U.S. have had a confirmed case of H5N1 this year. Of the […]
So, the ultimate goal of the USDA is to eliminate cattle as a reservoir. When the Agency announced it was planning for this programit noted that there were two candidate vaccines in trials. Until those are validated, it plans to use the standard playbook for handling emerging infections: contact tracing and isolation. And it has […]
Dozens of people in the United States have caught bird flu from animals this year, but there’s no evidence that the viral disease has spread from one person to another. However, a single mutation in the virus could make human-to-human spread possible, a new study finds. This genetic change would make the virus a much […]
H5N1 bird flu is getting better at spreading between mammals but does not yet spread as easily as seasonal flu, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study suggests. H5N1 has been detected in at least 46 people in the U.S. this year, causing only mild illnesses so far. The CDC maintains that the […]
