The Chinese woman contracted the H5N6 strain in the city of Bazhong, Sichuan, shortly after visiting a local poultry market, according to local reports. She was admitted to hospital on October 22 ...

A concerning new bat coronavirus is among 36 novel viruses detected among animals including racoon dogs, mink and guinea pigs ...

In parallel with COVID, in 2020 the reassortment of H5N6 and H5N8 with the H5-2.3.4.4b hemagglutinin gene and strains of ...

Researchers identified 125 virus species in Chinese farmed fur animals, including 36 novel viruses with significant zoonotic ...

A recent study warns that animals farmed for fur, like minks and raccoon dogs, harbor viruses that could jump to humans, ...

Most human cases worldwide have been caused by H7N9, highly pathogenic H5N1 or H5N6 viruses, per the CDC. Avian influenza can spread from infected birds to humans in a few ways, per the CDC ...

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity led the analysis of metagenomic mRNA in 697 ...

China has reported 21 human infections with the H5N6 subtype of avian influenza in 2021 to the World Health Organization, compared with only five last year, it said, with six dead and many of the ...

Novel and potentially dangerous viruses, including coronaviruses and influenza, are harbored in raccoon dogs, mink and other animals farmed for fur in China, scientists found in the first in-depth ...

scientists also found mink infected with two H5N6 bird flu viruses – while guinea pigs had H1N2 and H6N2 was found in a muskrat. “We know from European outbreaks that these [fur] farms can ...

A person in Missouri with no known animal exposure was hospitalized with avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, and has since recovered, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...