A recent bird flu death has sparked fears that a "brand-new virus" could potentially mutate under the right conditions and ...
Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...
Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...
Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...
The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...
Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...