The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

Flu A and flu B are two different strains of influenza, explains Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has contracted a new strain of the bird flu. Here's what we know about the D1.1 genotype bird flu ...

The researchers note that viral evolution of hemagglutinin can lead to resistance against vaccines and can sometimes lead to the virus jumping to other species more easily. They also caution that ...

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

Hemagglutinin is a glycoprotein found in influenza viruses that helps it bind to cells of the hosts it infects. The research team also evaluated the spread of the virus in wild birds, though according ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported the outbreak of the new strain, H5N9, earlier this week.