The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus.
A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.
Federal health officials say that not only has a Louisiana resident contracted the first severe case of bird flu in the U.S., ...
"We have outbreaks in poultry in all 50 states," Dr. Leana Wen tells Face the Nation's Major Garrett The post New Bird Flu ...
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...
In a positive finding, the CDC emphasized that there is no evidence the virus has spread from the Louisiana patient to others ...
The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, ...
"I feel like we should've learned our lesson from COVID, that just because we aren't testing doesn't mean the virus isn't there," Dr. Leana Wen said.
The CDC said that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated but the risk remains low ...
There's a new concern that the virus could evolve to spread from human to human.
The virus is spreading among animals, while viral mutations raise concerns about potential adaptation to human hosts.
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