Apoptosis occurs in a wide range of human diseases. In animal models of virus-induced disease, apoptosis correlates with viral titre and can be found in areas targeted by viral infection, which ...

When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly ...

USask Photo Dr. Bryce Warner was the co-lead on the dairy cattle H5N1 research project at VIDO. Dairy cows build a natural immunity to H5N1 after initial infection according to research conducted at ...

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The H5 and H9 designations refer to different types of these proteins. Both H5N9 and H5N1 are bird flu viruses, but they differ in their composition and effects. H5N1: This strain has been the ...

Both H5N9 and the more common H5N1 strains were found. The USDA is conducting investigations and enhanced surveillance, highlighting H5N1's higher human risk compared to H5N9, which is rarer and ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

So far, bird flu outbreaks in the U.S. have been from a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) called H5N1. That strain has been responsible for all the egg shortages and infections in ...

The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 detection alongside the more common H5N1 strain at the site. Scientists suspect the H5N9 strain emerged through reassortment—an ...

In the last few days, APHIS reported a series of new H5N1 avian flu outbreaks across 11 states, further impacting both commercial and backyard poultry flocks. Pixabay The United States has ...

Loading A more common bird flu strain, H5N1, has recently been spreading in US farm animals, and a woman died after contracting the disease in Louisiana, although severe cases in people have been ...

A more common bird flu strain, H5N1, has recently been spreading in US farm animals, although severe cases in people have been rare. H5N9 is a subtype of bird flu, and a version that appeared ...