Scientists believe the mutations may allow the virus to better bind to receptors in the upper airways of humans.
The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, ...
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The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird ...
A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of ...
New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) shows that over half of U.S. states have either "high" or "very high" levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—in ...
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 ...