The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

H5N1 bird flu from an extreme case in the US has mutated to attach to human upper airway cells, health chiefs have warned. The case, spotted this month in a hospitalised Louisiana man, is the ...

A lost or mutated PSEN2 gene disrupted these processes, causing a toxic build-up of APP fragments within, including Aβ peptides. So not only does impairment of the PSEN2 gene lead to more toxic ...

The patient was infected with the D1.1 genotype of the virus that was recently detected in wild birds and poultry in the United States, and not the B3.13 genotype detected in dairy cows ...