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 ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

A report published by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) details the characterization of viral sequences obtained from the milk of ...

Influenza virus is an infectious respiratory pathogen that encompasses four types: influenza A virus (IAV), IBV, ICV and IDV (Uyeki, 2021; Wolf and Antoon, 2023). Among them, IAV is primarily ...

Sneezing, fever, chills, vomiting, coughing — it’s not just one virus wreaking havoc this winter; it’s a combination of four major illnesses: influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV ...

Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists Although many of the infections have been mild, emerging data indicate that variants of the avian influenza virus H5N1 ...

Instead, the virus has infected more than 900 herds and dozens of people, killing one, and the outbreak shows no signs of abating. A human pandemic is not inevitable, even now, more than a dozen ...

are particularly sensitive to H5N1 avian influenza, and care should be taken not to expose these animals to the virus. Dogs also can contract H5N1, though they appear less susceptible to the virus ...

Read on to learn about the different types of flu. Flu, or influenza, is a contagious respiratory infection caused by various flu viruses. Symptoms include muscle aches and soreness, headache ...