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Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...
Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced Wednesday that New York has reached "Unaffected" status ...
For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...
A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...
Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...
H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...
Understanding how poultry responds to avian influenza at the cellular level could help geneticists create disease-resistant birds.
During monsoons, influenza is among the most prevalent viral infections, spreading quickly among kids. So, vaccination before rains set in is crucial. Here's why.
Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...
“In our results, a substantial proportion of infections was prevented when transmissibility was similar to that encountered in typical influenza seasons, vaccine effectiveness was within the ranges ...
The vaccine will offer protection against H5N1 and is projected to be effective against future viral mutations.