Bird flu appears to be rising in the U.S., but only among people exposed to infected animals — namely, cows and poultry.Since ...

Nevertheless, rOC43-CoV2-S is a totally novel human coronavirus, and this raises significant concerns. Second, unlike SARS-CoV-2, HCoV-OC43 (and rOC43-CoV2-S) possesses an additional surface ...

Europe's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended granting marketing authorization for two vaccines: Fluad (surface antigen, inactivated, adjuvanted) and Flucelvax ...

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 ...

The structure of a complex of influenza hemagglutinin (HA) with a neutralizing antibody shows that the antibody binds to HA at a distance from the virus receptor binding site. Comparison of the ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Influenza B is one of the two main types of influenza (flu) viruses that cause seasonal ...

Paramyxoviruses have two surface glycoproteins, a hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein and a fusion (F) protein. HN has three functions: it recognizes sialic acid-containing receptors on cell ...

Influenza virus, also known as the flu, is caused by influenza A and B viruses. Each year in Canada, about five to ten percent of adults and 20 to 30 percent of children are infected with influenza, ...

Diarrhea, which is caused by bacteria such as Salmonella or by viruses like norovirus, is the fourth leading cause of death among children worldwide, with children in low-resource settings being at ...