H5N1
English
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Noun
[edit]- (medicine) A strain of avian influenza, often lethal in humans but not transmissible between humans.
- 2025 January 27, Edward Helmore, “First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Authorities said the discovery of H5N9 bird flu in poultry came alongside the detection of the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm in Merced county, California, and that almost 119,000 birds on the farm had been killed since early December.
Quotations
[edit]2005: At present, H5N1 flu strain poses only a limited threat to humans as it cannot spread easily between people. — Case of Bird Flu Drug Resistance, BBC Online.