The H5N1 virus has a ways to go before it can successfully jump to humans but that it doesn’t reduce the threat it poses.
The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating ...
US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying ...
H5N9 is a rare strain of avian influenza. H5N1 is the more ... "Whether this novel H5N9 virus will cause human infections from its avian host and become a pandemic subtype is not known yet.
One person infected with the bird flu died in Louisiana on Jan. 6. The patient was over 65 and became ill after contact with ...