As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human and bird flu strains.
Bird flu, Covid-19, and influenza are all respiratory infections spreading through respiratory droplets. While influenza generally causes milder symptoms, Covid-19 and bird flu can lead to more severe ...
A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...
"Similarly, the stalk region of the bird flu virus closely resembles the same structure of seasonal influenza, which makes it possible for stalk-targeting antibodies to provide universal ...
Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according ...
You may have noticed egg prices going up, and even eggs being scarce. Bird flu is to blame, but it doesn’t just affect egg ...
The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety Inspection Service has rehired employees who were fired but work on bird flu issues, ...
Similarly, the stalk region of the bird flu virus closely resembles the same structure of seasonal influenza, which makes it possible for stalk-targeting antibodies to provide universal ...