People can spread bird flu to their cats, US study suggests
A study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that people can transmit bird flu to their domestic cats, with fatal consequences....
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US reports first human death from bird flu
The patient, aged over 65, had been hospitalised in the southern state since at least mid-December, when the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced it as the country鈥檚 first serious case of human infection from the H5N1 virus...
Bird flu mutates inside US patient, raising concern
The bird flu virus found in a severely ill patient hospitalised in the United States has mutated to become better adapted to human airways...
Multiple bird flu cases detected across England
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said that 鈥榝urther鈥� cases of bird flu were detected in Norfolk, east England and East Riding of Yorkshire, northeast England in the past week...
First fatal human case of H5N2 bird flu identified: WHO
The World Health Organization said Wednesday a person in Mexico had died in the first confirmed human case globally of infection with the H5N2 variant of bird flu.
US reports second human case of bird flu tied to dairy cow outbreak
A second case of bird flu has been found in a human, US health authorities announced on Wednesday, less then two months after the first one as an outbreak of the disease circulates widely among dairy cows.....
Bird flu virus fragments found in pasteurised milk
United States health authorities on Tuesday said that they had discovered fragments of bird flu virus in the nation鈥檚 pasteurised cow milk supply during the course of a large study, but the samples likely posed no health risk to humans...
H5N1 strain of bird flu found in milk: WHO
The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said on Friday, though how long the...
Human cases of bird flu 鈥榓n enormous concern鈥�, says WHO
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an 鈥榚xtraordinarily high鈥� mortality rate...