What Is a Vector of the H5N1 Virus

UK detects bird flu in a sheep

Scientific American · 2h

What the World’s First Case of Bird Flu in Sheep Means for the Virus’s Spread

The detection of bird flu in a sheep is another sign that the H5N1 virus is adapting to hop to new hosts

Ars Technica · 5h

UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first

"Globally, we continue to see that mammals can be infected with avian influenza A (H5N1)," Meera Chand, Emerging Infection Lead at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said in a statement. In the US, the Department of Agriculture has documented hundreds of infections in wild and captive mammals, from cats to bears, raccoons, and harbor seals.

The Financial Times · 14h

UK detects bird flu in sheep for the first time

The first UK H5N1-type bird flu case in sheep has been confirmed in Yorkshire as authorities intensify efforts to avoid the mass outbreaks of the disease seen in US livestock. The infection was identified after “routine surveillance of co-located livestock on a premises where avian influenza had been confirmed in captive birds”,

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Calf Milk Poses H5N1 Risk, Too

Soon after the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain H5N1 in dairy cattle, scientists learned that ...

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H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses, research finds

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...

10don MSN

What Minnesotans need to know about bird flu risks

For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey ...

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H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows

The new study shows that this aging process may not inactivate the H5N1 virus, however, and it underscores the risk of consuming raw or undercooked foods during the bird flu outbreak, which ...

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H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses, UNC Charlotte research finds

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

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