Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided a major update on the first human case of bird flu in the US with ...

Public health officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident contracted bird flu without having any contact ...

In parallel with COVID, in 2020 the reassortment of H5N6 and H5N8 with the H5-2.3.4.4b hemagglutinin gene and strains of ...

One of the challenges in preventing seasonal flu infections is predicting how a flu virus is expected to change, according to ...

A person in Missouri is the United States’ first case of H5 avian influenza without a known exposure to a sick animal, the US ...

Influenza strains are referred to by a shorthand code, H5N1 for example, that describes which flavors of two particular surface proteins it carries. The H (sometimes HA), is hemagglutinin, a ...

“There are two main reasons for that.” To be able to cause an infection, a virus “has to be able to get into the cell, and for that it needs a receptor,” Cusack said. For influenza viruses, those ...

Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

It also dives deeper than other efforts that use PCR to look for the H5 hemagglutinin gene. The potentially more sensitive ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on September 13 shared new information from Missouri officials on ...