As bird flu continues to sweep through poultry farms, United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proposing a ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.

The H5N1 influenza virus poses a significant threat to public health due to its potential to shift from an epidemic to a pandemic. Since its emergence in the 1990s, H5N1 has demonstrated a concerning ...

COVID-19, scientists are watching another virus warily: H5N1. It’s been circulating widely in the U.S. — and now, wild birds ...

In two recent interviews on Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed concerns about H5N1 avian influenza in the U.S., raising alarm among public health and infectious disease experts.

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...

Luban: Influenza viruses kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each year and have killed tens of millions in pandemics. As influenza spreads from host to host, it gradually accumulates ...

NEW DELHI: Delhi NCR is witnessing a sharp rise in cases of influenza, including swine flu ... into whether environmental factors, new viral mutations, or inadequate preventive measures are ...

Yoshi Kawaoka: So in the past, there are avian influenza viruses that are in migratory waterfall [that] acquired mutations in PB2 proteins that make the virus replicate better in mammalian species.

and influenza viruses are known for their ability to mutate, Lucar said. One such mutation could be for the NA protein that is the target for oseltamivir, he said. “This could happen ...

1 College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China 2 College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China Around 2005, ...