What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Recent findings reveal H5N1 avian influenza is evolving, evading immunity, and increasing pandemic potential, highlighting ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected birds and mammals around the world. As of June 2025, 70 people have been infected ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected birds and mammals around the world. As of June 2025, 70 people have been infected ...

Domestic cats have traditionally been overlooked as potential hosts for influenza A viruses (IAVs). However, the global dissemination of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, particularly ...

Australia is "surrounded" by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores. Warning: This story contains images that may ...

Experts have long recognized that the H5N1 virus that causes the disease has pandemic potential, just like COVID-19 or swine flu. In the past three years, ... New avenues for evolution.

The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in 40+ countries, has published a comprehensive analysis and call-to ...

Although human infections from H5N1 have been relatively rare, there have been a little more than 900 known cases globally since 2003 – nearly 50% of these cases have been fatal – a mortality ...

Until recently, Nelson and other bird flu experts held out hope that, with some basic interventions, the H5N1 outbreak among cows and poultry would burn itself out and that cases among wild ...