While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Flu A and flu B are two different strains of influenza, explains Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

The Central Nevada Health District (CNHD) today said it has confirmed the state's first human infection from H5N1 avian flu, ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 ... for viruses isolated during the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes].

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".

Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.