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Avian Influenza: What Infectious Disease Physicians Need to Know
Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...
Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza
The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...
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With Bird Flu, the Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...
H5N1 strain of bird flu has potential to become pandemic, says UK expert
The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...
Bird flu tops list of viruses likely to cause another pandemic - so authorities are on high alert
As avian influenza is found in a sheep in Yorkshire, the close contact humans have with domesticated animals is an extra ...
New carrier birds brought avian flu to Europe and the Americas
Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...
The Bird Flu Virus Is Mutating Fast – And Scientists Say Our Vaccines May Not Be Enough
H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...
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Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza
Today, as we stand on the brink of an avian influenza pandemic that could be significantly worse than COVID-19, too much of the world seems unaware, unprepared or largely disengaged. Globally ...
Bird flu ‘has potential to become pandemic’, warn health officials
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...
UK detects first case of bird flu in a sheep, stoking fears of spread
Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain's ...
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World's first case of bird flu in sheep found in England - how worried should we be?
The first known case of bird flu in a sheep anywhere in the world has been found on a Yorkshire farm. The case was identified ...
Bird flu ‘has potential to become pandemic’, UKHSA director says
Richard Pebody said while the virus is ‘not new’ and the risk to the public remains low, its features have changed in recent ...