From egg prices to pet food recalls – and now, confirmation that another strain of bird flu has infected a large commercial ...

As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, ...

In a step toward stronger emergency preparedness, HealthTrackRx has developed a fast-response PCR test for Avian Influenza A (H5N1), also known as bird flu. This project was done in partnership with ...

To create the experimental bird flu vaccine, the researchers added what’s called a histidine tag, or his-tag, to both the H5 ...

Photos show what happened during polio outbreaks in the US and how the vaccine was developed. A virus that affects nerves in the spinal cord or brain stem causes polio. Polio mainly affects ...

Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus within it — until a pair of Virginia Tech researchers waded into the ...

Arcturus Therapeutics Receives U.S. FDA Fast Track Designation for the STARR® mRNA Vaccine Candidate ARCT-2304 for Pandemic Influenza A Virus H5N1 Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the ...

"And that's the only consistent thing I can say about it." Biologically, H5N1 isn't so different from any other influenza A virus—the type that resides mainly in wild birds, as well as bats ...