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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 ...
People become infected when H5N1 virus particles get into their mouth, nose, eyes or are inhaled. (You cannot get bird flu from eating an infected bird or eggs, as long as the food is properly ...
Bird flu — clinically known as influenza A (H5N1) — is a variation of flu virus that spreads primarily among birds and poultry and can be highly contagious and even fatal among birds ...
60 people in the US have contracted bird flu amid outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. What are the symptoms? What to know about highly pathogenic avian influenza, aka, H5N1.
Humans can catch bird flu, but not easily. Avian flu has been around and infecting wild birds and poultry since 1996. There have been nearly 1,000 known cases of bird flu in humans (889 between ...
Credit - Getty Images—iStockphoto. B ird flu, or avian influenza, can be deadly in birds but normally doesn’t infect people. While some strains have caused serious disease and even death in ...
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.
The H5N1 bird flu virus that infected the teen, who is in critical but stable condition, is not the same strain that is transmitting in dairy cattle in the United States. It is more closely ...