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For one, the bird flu virus — known as H5N1 — has spread uncontrolled in animals, including cows frequently in contact with people. Additionally, detections in wastewater show the virus is ...
61 cases of human bird flu in the U.S. in 2024. Since the start of 2024, human H5N1 bird flu cases have been reported in the following states, according to the latest CDC data: California: 34 ...
Bird flu is a scary illness with a high mortality rate. But so far, infections in the U.S. have been relatively mild—until now. A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of ...
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (A/H5N1) is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which causes the disease avian influenza (often referred to as "bird flu"). It is enzootic (maintained in the population) in many bird populations, and also panzootic (affecting animals of many species over a wide area). [ 1 ]
H5N1 was also detected in a pig in Oregon, the first ever reported case in the USA. [96] Meanwhile, by late November human cases of H5N1 in the USA increased to over fifty for the year with infections being reported in seven states. [97] On November 7, the CDC reported asymptomatic bird flu infection in 4 workers at dairy farms.
"In this case, the H5 in the H5N9 was the H5 from the currently circulating H5N1 bird flu that is more pathogenic." With H5N9, he said, the virus appears to have switched its N1 and picked up an ...
H5N1 bird flu samples collected from a severely ill patient in Louisiana show signs of mutations that may make the virus more transmissible to humans, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
This is the 66th case of reported H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. this year and the 36th person in California. Thirty-four of the cases have involved dairy workers, and one — a child in Alameda County ...