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

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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 ...

After a different strain of bird flu was recently found in cattle for the first time, experts reveal what this means in our fight against the virus.

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

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

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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 dairy worker in Nevada is the state’s first human case of bird flu after the employee was exposed to infected dairy cattle.

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

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

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