India's apex health research body has warned that H5N1 infection in humans has a high case fatality rate, exceeding 50 ...

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The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it's purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian ...

Experts worry that a bird flu outbreak among dairy cattle could lead to a pandemic in the human population. Now, there's some research behind that. A study finds that the flu can remain infectious in ...

A new strain of avian flu, H5N1, has spread to dairy cows and domestic cats in the U.S., with a dairy worker in Nevada ...

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is an External Advisory Body that provides the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) with independent, ongoing, and timely medical, scientific, ...

A Wyoming woman has been hospitalized with the bird flu after her backyard chicken flock contracted the disease and died, ...

Structurally convergent antibodies derived from different vaccine strategies target the influenza virus HA anchor epitope with a subset of V H 3 and V K 3 genes Structurally convergent antibodies ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples ... By Carl Zimmer The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses ...

In addition, swine (pigs) can be infected with some strains of avian influenza viruses. During poultry outbreaks, some avian influenza viral strains can pass from domestic poultry to humans, but this ...