Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, ...

Poultry at a second commercial farm in Maricopa County have tested positive for Avian Influenza, according to a report. The ...

Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza more than doubled in mammals in 2024 from the year before, according to the a ...

In recent years, public health measures, surveillance, and vaccination have helped bring about significant progress in reducing the impact of seasonal flu epidemics, caused by human influenza viruses ...

The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the avian influenza virus ...

Shah: This is a highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1—what people are commonly referring to as the bird flu. Influenza, in general, small changes in the genetic structure of the virus can lead ...

FILE - This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024, shows avian ... flu virus closely resembles the same ...

The first known case of H5N1 avian flu in a person was in 1997 ... Messer says one interesting aspect of the virus’s structure is that it can pair well with lots of different host enzymes ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...