Groulx said the evolution of a pandemic strain “is a pressing concern,” and has been seen before. In 2009, the H1N1 virus — also called the swine flu — was a “re-assortment of avian influenza, human ...
The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the ...
The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...
Horses carry their own form of flu virus, and researchers say that if the two viruses combine, the consequences are unknown ...
Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...
A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.
This means when Moffitt is at the grocery store, she picks up extra gallons of water to store in case of an emergency. She ...
The bird flu virus that brought a Canadian teen to the “brink of death” may have mutated while inside her body to become more ...
H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.
The death comes as multiple infectious diseases are surging throughout the US, including the 10th wave of the COVID-19 ...