{"id":5558,"date":"2024-05-03T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2024-05-03T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:26:18","slug":"new-mutations-identified-in-bird-flu-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5558","title":{"rendered":"New Mutations Identified in Bird Flu Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A genetic analysis sheds light on when the outbreak began, how the virus spread and where it may be going.<\/p>\n

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The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at spreading between species and less susceptible to antiviral drugs, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

None of the mutations is a cause for alarm on its own. But they underscore the possibility that as the outbreak continues, the virus may evolve in ways that would allow it to spread easily between people, experts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlu mutates all the time \u2014 it\u2019s what, sort of, flu does,\u201d said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, who was not involved in the work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real key would be if we start to see some of these mutations getting more prevalent,\u201d Dr. Webby said. \u201cThat would raise the risk level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The virus, called H5N1, has infected cows in at least 36 herds in nine states, raising fears that milk could be infectious \u2014 concerns now largely put to rest<\/a> \u2014 and highlighting the risk that many viruses might jump across species on crowded farms.<\/p>\n

The study was posted online<\/a> on Wednesday and has not been peer reviewed. It is among the first to provide details of a Department of Agriculture investigation that has been mostly opaque until now, frustrating experts<\/a> outside the government.<\/p>\n

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A genetic analysis sheds light on when the outbreak began, how the virus spread and where it may be going.The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at spreading between species and less susceptible to antiviral drugs, according to a new study.None of the mutations is a cause for alarm on its own. But they underscore the possibility that as the outbreak continues, the virus may evolve in ways that would allow it to spread easily between people, experts said.\u201cFlu mutates all the time \u2014 it\u2019s what, sort of, flu does,\u201d said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, who was not involved in the work.\u201cThe real key would be if we start to see some of these mutations getting more prevalent,\u201d Dr. Webby said. \u201cThat would raise the risk level.\u201dThe virus, called H5N1, has infected cows in at least 36 herds in nine states, raising fears that milk could be infectious \u2014 concerns now largely put to rest \u2014 and highlighting the risk that many viruses might jump across species on crowded farms.The study was posted online on Wednesday and has not been peer reviewed. It is among the first to provide details of a Department of Agriculture investigation that has been mostly opaque until now, frustrating experts outside the government.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5561,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}