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

"Those hybrid strains can be especially dangerous to humans, and these are the strains that we worry could spark a pandemic," Gounder said. Does bird flu affect eggs? Bird flu continues to affect ...

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

"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 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 ...

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.

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.

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.