The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

“Big picture: There are multiple avian influenza viruses circulating so this is not horribly surprising,” said Maurice Pitesky, an associate professor who researches poultry health and food ...

Avian influenza A viruses are very different from human seasonal ... from environments contaminated by the virus or through an intermediate host such as another animal. "People with close ...

The finding at a California duck farm is raising alarms among public health experts that bird flu could further mutate into ...

And while mortality rates with bird flu in general are particularly low ... "Whether this novel H5N9 virus will cause human infections from its avian host and become a pandemic subtype is not ...

Avian influenza A viruses are very different from human seasonal ... from environments contaminated by the virus or through an intermediate host such as another animal. "People with close ...

Sec. Mike Naig says the U.S. government is using what he describes as a three-legged stool approach to address the virus in ...

A PERSON in the West Midlands has contracted bird flu, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The case is only one ...

One of the barriers currently preventing avian viruses from spreading to humans has to do with the way different flu viruses bind to their host. This happens when a flu virus’ haemagglutinin (HA ...

And while mortality rates with bird flu in general are particularly low ... "Whether this novel H5N9 virus will cause human infections from its avian host and become a pandemic subtype is not ...