G. M. Humber

A lethal human H5N5 influenza virus isolate exhibits low pandemic risk traits

This work analyzed an isolate that resulted in a human fatality in 2025 and found that this strain lacks many key features of influenza viruses with epidemiological success in humans including reduced growth in human lung cultures, a pH of inactivation less than 5.0, and lack of transmission to cohoused recipient ferre...