H5N1, Bird Flu

Avian influenza viruses typically require several mutations to adapt and spread among humans, but what happens when just one change can increase the risk of becoming a pandemic virus? A recent study ...
Dozens of people in the United States have caught bird flu from animals this year, but there's no evidence that the viral ...
The Scripps Research Institute finding counters prevailing thought that the virus would require multiple mutations before it ...
A single mutation in the virus currently infecting poultry and dairy farms across the U.S. could help the it spread among humans.
Scientists have been criticised for publishing a blueprint to create a mutated bovine-bird flu virus that could cause another ...
The UK has secured a contract for more than five million doses of a bird flu vaccine, to be used if the H5N1 strain spreads ...