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 ...
After a recent raw milk product recall in California, what is the latest information on the bird flu outbreak?
“The emergence of a bovine H5N1 virus capable of recognizing human receptors may be closer than previously thought,” ...
Dozens of people in the United States have caught bird flu from animals this year, but there's no evidence that the viral ...
Study published in Science says a single hemagglutinin mutation, similar to one seen in a Canadian case, could make H5N1 ...
The flu virus currently circulating in birds and dairy cows is already better at infecting people than earlier variants, and ...
The Scripps Research Institute finding counters prevailing thought that the virus would require multiple mutations before it ...
A new study finds tweaking part of the H5N1 virus infecting dairy cows in a single spot could allow it to better attach to ...
Scientists have been criticised for publishing a blueprint to create a mutated bovine-bird flu virus that could cause another ...
In its current form, the H5N1 virus is better at infecting certain animal species than humans. It has sickened millions of ...
A single mutation in the virus currently infecting poultry and dairy farms across the U.S. could help the it spread among humans.
The potential mutation would allow the avian influenza virus sweeping through cattle herds to attach to a receptor protein on ...