The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today published an addendum to Technical Report: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses, which provides a summary of the case and the genomic analysis of the avian influenza virus from the first H5N1 infection reported in a human in Chile.
Recent tests completed on the Chilean man infected with bird flu indicate that this avian virus has partially adapted to spread between mammals, such as bears, cats, and dogs.
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