Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses like H5N1, H5N6, and H7N9 pose an evolving global threat due to their capacity to ...

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Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

When scientists engineer a better way to fight the flu, they often begin with nature’s own defenses. That’s what a new study from researchers at The Ohio State University set out to do. Their goal was ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

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Moderna will not be developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu — at least on the federal government’s dime. The U.S.

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.