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

The H (sometimes HA), is hemagglutinin, a lollipop-shaped protein that binds to a receptor on a human cell, the first step toward getting the virus inside the cell. The N is neuraminidase, a second ...

"Each flu virus, which we call influenza, has a hemagglutinin protein that initiates an infection when it attaches to cells.

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

Disease investigators have not been able to determine how a person in Missouri with no known exposures to animals or poultry became infected with an H5 bird flu virus.

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

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

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

A person in Missouri has tested positive for bird flu, reports the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The ...

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

But since then, since the publication of the paper, we’ve been concentrating on the hemagglutinin gene, which is the major surface protein of the virus, which is important in how the cell ...