Artist-in-Residence Hattie Grimm is the creator of the Charles Allis Art Museum’s new art exhibit called “BIRD BODY”. The ...

"This is a special concern because many pandemics seem to have come through pigs as a mixing vessel" for hybrid human-animal viruses. Because bird flu has thus far little circulation in the human ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

So far, 70 human cases have been confirmed ... An example is an individual getting infected with bird flu and seasonal influenza at the same time and a hybrid virus forming as a result.

Pigs are sometimes called a “mixing vessel” for flu viruses, because they can be infected with both bird flu viruses and human flu viruses ... potentially creating a hybrid virus that is ...

Bird flu viruses typically require ... He explained that farm workers exposed to both human and avian influenza could increase the chance of a hybrid virus emerging—one capable of person-to ...

Human Bird Flu Cases in the U.S One fear experts ... He said this could lead to the virus "reassorting" to produce a hybrid, or recombinant, virus that could then transmit more easily from person ...

The spread appears to be multidirectional and interspecies, with the same viral sequence recovered from cows, birds and ... produce a hybrid with greater capability to infect humans.

Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. These plump, black-and-white birds have made themselves at home in the canals ...

The number of confirmed cases in humans has held steady ... an individual getting infected with bird flu and seasonal influenza at the same time and a hybrid virus forming as a result.