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In the meantime, the CDC encourages everyone 6 months and older to get their 2024–25 seasonal flu shot. This vaccine won’t protect you from bird flu, but the more people who are vaccinated ...
Credit - Paul Maguire—Getty Images. A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction. When someone dies from the bird flu ...
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu among poultry and dairy cows, the United States has recorded its first human death due the virus known as avian influenza A or H5N1.
H5N1 influenza virus is a type of influenza A virus which mostly infects birds. H5N1 flu is a concern because its global spread may constitute a pandemic threat. The yardstick for human mortality from H5N1 is the case-fatality rate (CFR); the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases of infection with the virus.
On November 7, the CDC reported asymptomatic bird flu infection in 4 workers at dairy farms. The workers didn't recall ever being sick but had antibodies showing that they had been infected with bird flu. [98] On November 22, the CDC confirmed the first case of bird flu in a U.S. child, being the 55th case of bird flu in humans in the U.S.
Here’s what to know about the United States’ first confirmed severe case of H5N1 avian influenza—and how to protect yourself. ‘Severe’ Bird Flu in the U.S.: Latest Updates Skip to main ...
In September, Egypt and Sudan joined the list of nations seeing a resurgence of bird deaths due to H5N1. [citation needed] In November and December, South Korea and Vietnam joined the list of nations seeing a resurgence of bird deaths due to H5N1; February/March 2006 - A dead cat infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus was found in Germany. [26]
The threat of avian flu has dominated public health discourse as cases become increasingly more widespread and severe. H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain, was present in several continents as early ...