As the H5N1 avian influenza virus continues its rampage through U.S. dairy cow herds, it has also infected human farm workers ...

A Texas case of H5N1 in a dairy worker revealed a virus capable of fatal transmission in ferrets, raising concerns about its ...

According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 15 commercial and non-commercial premises in British Columbia are currently ...

Public health experts are concerned that the first detection of H5N1 bird flu in a pig could mean the next step in ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020. But ...

H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a pig in the U.S. for the first time, raising concerns about potential risks to humans.

Vasso Apostolopoulos, an immunologist at RMIT University in Australia, explained in an email that the H5N1 virus in Cambodia belongs to a different branch of the influenza family tree. Genetic ...

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...

The doctor echoed Siegel’s concern that swine are a known "mixing vessel" for influenza A viruses, "as they are able to be infected by avian and human influenza virus strains." "If H5N1, an avian ...

Some antiviral drugs demonstrate high effectiveness against bovine H5N1. A recent study published in Nature reports that a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, isolated from the eye of ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

Vasso Apostolopoulos, an immunologist at RMIT University in Australia, explained in an email that the H5N1 virus in Cambodia belongs to a different branch of the influenza family tree. Genetic ...