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How Scared Should You Be of Bird Flu?

How worried you should be about H5N1, the bird flu virus spreading on dairy farms in the United States, depends…

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A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Here’s What It Might Look Like.

There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may…

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Our Desire for Inexpensive Food Is Putting Us in Danger

A dairy worker in Texas contracts H5N1 bird flu after contact with infected cows, and suffers eye inflammation. Weeks later,…

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La adaptación del virus H5N1 a mamíferos marinos genera inquietud

Los investigadores descubrieron que enormes cantidades de elefantes marinos murieron luego de que el virus adquirió casi 20 nuevas mutaciones.

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The Bird Flu Virus Adapted to Sea Mammals. It May Not Be Done Yet.

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found.

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Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming

The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells…

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Bird Flu Virus Found in Beef Tissue

Muscle from a sick dairy cow tested positive for the virus. The meat did not enter the commercial food supply,…

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Milk Containing Bird-Flu Virus Can Sicken Mice, Study Finds

The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.

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Bird Flu Is Our Fault

We don’t yet know if H5N1 bird flu will spill over from animals to infect a large number of humans.…

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Pasteurized Dairy Foods Free of Live Bird Flu, Federal Tests Confirm

But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.

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