Canadian teenager infected with H5N1 bird flu in critical condition
Nuzzo said there are other hypotheses — which she stressed are just hypotheses — including one that posits people who were exposed to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak in 2009 may have acquired some immunity to the “N1” part of the virus. The other goes ...
Canadian teen’s bird flu infection is not the version found in cows
A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.
Canadian Teenager Hospitalized in Critical Condition With Bird Flu
Canadian officials have announced that a teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.
Teen sickened with Canada's first human case of bird flu is in critical condition — and the source remains a mystery
A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how the youth was exposed.
Bird flu is confirmed in hospitalized Canadian teen
Canadian health officials have confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen. The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday that tests showed the virus involved was related to a bird flu outbreak in poultry in the province.
Canada Detects Its First Human Case of Bird Flu
A teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized in critical condition with the disease, and officials were working to find out how the person was exposed to the virus.
What Canada does to monitor H5N1 avian flu
Since Influenza A or flu viruses are named after the animal where they are most commonly found, avian viruses are naturally found in birds. H5N1 is a highly transmissible and usually mild disease in geese,
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Researchers Found Bird Flu In Pigs — Here’s Why That’s So Worrisome
Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...
Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu?
Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...
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A Genetic Deficiency That Raises Susceptibility to Many Types of Flu
There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3. | ...
Elephant Seal Colony Declines One Year After Avian Flu Outbreak
A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...
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Bird flu detected in pigs—here's why virologists are concerned
but we also know that the strain of influenza virus that entered pigs in 1918 then circulated in them for over 90 years before combining with other viruses to cause the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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Bird flu among pigs should worry humans too
when it started a swine flu pandemic. That pandemic wasn’t as deadly as scientists initially feared, thanks to changes in the virus and our immunity. People and pigs seem to exchange viruses ...
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CDC calls for expanded bird flu testing after more dairy worker infections found in Colorado and Michigan
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New roles in infectious process for molecule that inhibits flu
Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.
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Teenager hospitalised with bird flu
The source of the H1N1 pandemic – also known as ‘swine flu’ – pigs have also been implicated as the source of other influenza outbreaks, and are described as being a “mixing vessel ...