Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

Influenza is largely a known entity; we essentially have a minor pandemic every winter with small changes in the virus each year ... Attention had been focused on avian influenza since 1997 ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...

An Oregon company that sells pet food across Washington state has issued a recall of a raw, frozen product contaminated with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, or H5N1. The Northwest ...

According to the CDC, there have been avian influenza A viruses—other than H5N1—which have spread between humans in the past, but that is very rare.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old in British Columbia shows “worrisome” signs that the virus could be mutating to ...