Bird flu cases are on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC is on high alert. With 66 confirmed human cases so far, officials are ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

Bird flu viruses like H5N1 mainly infect hosts with sialic acid-containing glycan receptors typically found in birds, and the team is concerned that if they evolve to recognise sialylated glycan ...

The UK government has taken steps to prepare for a possible bird flu outbreak by placing ... no evidence yet that the current epidemic of H5N1 flu in birds could be spread between humans, there ...

The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...

CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007 (AP), India. The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for ...

The 2009 influenza pandemic A(H1N1)pdm09 of swine origin and the continued circulation of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 strain in humans are stark reminders of the unpredictable nature of the ...

Pigs are the most important reservoir for influenza A viruses, acting as an intermediary host for both interspecies transmission and genetic reassortment. This is due to the high susceptibility of ...

Spillover of avian A(H5N1) influenza virus to mammals may favour adaptation to these new hosts. Air sampling of infected ferrets shows that recent A(H5N1) strains, including one from a human case ...

And why didn’t it cut off Russia’s natural gas earlier? By Marc SantoraAndrew Higgins and Stanley Reed A transnational pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after Kyiv refused to renew a ...