A recent study has revealed that a single genetic change in a strain of the highly pathogenic H5 influenza virus could potentially unlock its ability to infect and spread between humans. Scientists ...

If you could cross-section a flu virus, it would look roughly like a ball, studded with molecules that resemble spikes and mushrooms. The spikes are hemagglutinin, known as H or HA for short ...

As schools reopen, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reports an uptick in flu cases following a recent ...

Moreover, because at least 16 different hemagglutinin subtypes and nine different ... of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at the time of this virus's outbreak; indeed, the virus was not extensively ...

The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

Through this investigation, Reid was able to map a gene called the hemagglutinin, which is key to allowing the influenza virus to take hold. Reid reported that the hemagglutinin closely resembles ...

two-digit year for viruses isolated during the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes]. Thus, a type A virus isolated in 1995 in Memphis Tennessee ...