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MANKATO, Minn. — Minnesota is better prepared for a potential bird flu return after a devastating 2015 epidemic, according to poultry producers and experts. "People aren't panicked," said Abby Neu, poultry regional educator for the University of Minnesota Extension. Franken said federal funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2015 helped put protocols in place to better address outbreaks of bird flu. She recently demonstrated the best biosecurity practices for producers at the Midwest Poultry Federation Convention in St. Paul. The bird flu has been detected in two states, including a dangerous pathogenic virus in Tennessee.

Tiny genetic change lets bird flu leap to humans

The research, published in the journal, Nature Communications, will help scientists understand more about how bird flu viruses adapt to infect humans. Flare-upDr Derek Gatherer, an expert on viruses at Lancaster University, UK, says more surveillance of bird flu viruses is needed. "Also, the observation that this mutation has been present in other bird flu subtypes like H9N2 and spreading slowly for over 15 years shows that H7N9 isn't the only kind of bird flu that is potentially a pandemic risk for humans. "We need to maintain a broader surveillance of bird flu to identify which strains have this mutation." Researchers at the University of Hong Kong studied a strain of bird flu that has caused human cases in China for several years.


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