Amidst growing fears of human-to-human transmission, “bird flu” is no longer just a grocery store problem — it’s exposing ...

It means that this virus can now replicate outside of the confines of the respiratory tract, get into other organs and cause ...

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

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

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

A report published by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) details the characterization of viral sequences obtained from the milk of ...

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

A strain of bird flu never seen before in the United States has been detected among poultry at a California farm. The virus, called highly pathogenic H5N9, is a type of avian influenza, otherwise ...

The virus, called highly pathogenic H5N9, is a type of avian influenza, otherwise known as "bird flu." This is not the same type of bird flu that's already been spreading on dairy cow and poultry ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors”.

To test this idea, scientists studied the genetic sequences of a key element of the virus, hemagglutinin. This glycoprotein allows the pathogen to attach to host cells. Their analysis focused on ...