Nicholas Fabiano, MD @ntfabiano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024We are one mutation away from human-to-human transmission of H5N1 (bird flu). 🧵1/9 34721
Nicholas Fabiano, MD @ntfabiano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024These findings are from a study in Science which performed a genetic and structural analysis of the H5N1 mutations necessary to fully switch host receptor recognition. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 2/9 140
Nicholas Fabiano, MD @ntfabiano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024In 2021, a highly pathogenic influenza H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus was detected in North America that is capable of infecting a diversity of avian species, marine mammals, and humans. 3/9 140
