Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United States, with sporadic human cases. We describe characteristics of human ...
The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the United States was found to have mutated, likely making it more transmissible to humans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...
This suggests that a mutation to the virus occurred after the person had become infected by it. This is both good … and not so good. Post-infection mutation and no human-to-human transmission ...
When Homo neanderthalensis first came in contact with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago, in what’s now the Middle East, they encountered a host of diseases for which humans had no immunity for ...
People are accepting of and prefer self-testing for human papilloma virus (HPV), rather than having a clinician-led cervical smear test, but there is a lack of knowledge about the new cervical ...