Virus
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Health
A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Here’s What It Might Look Like.
There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may…
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World
La adaptación del virus H5N1 a mamíferos marinos genera inquietud
Los investigadores descubrieron que enormes cantidades de elefantes marinos murieron luego de que el virus adquirió casi 20 nuevas mutaciones.
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Health
The Bird Flu Virus Adapted to Sea Mammals. It May Not Be Done Yet.
Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found.
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Opinion
Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming
The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells…
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Health
Bird Flu Virus Found in Beef Tissue
Muscle from a sick dairy cow tested positive for the virus. The meat did not enter the commercial food supply,…
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Health
Milk Containing Bird-Flu Virus Can Sicken Mice, Study Finds
The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.
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Opinion
Bird Flu Is Our Fault
We don’t yet know if H5N1 bird flu will spill over from animals to infect a large number of humans.…
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Health
Pasteurized Dairy Foods Free of Live Bird Flu, Federal Tests Confirm
But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.
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Health
Federal Officials Find No Live Bird Flu Virus in Initial Milk Tests
The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.
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Health
One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu
There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that…
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