For the H5N1 avian influenza virus to become pandemic, it would not only need to improve its ability to become airborne between humans and to bind to receptors on people's cells—it would also ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...

Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already ...

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 ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

The U.S. hasn’t been able to control the spread of the H5N1 bird flu. And now, there’s been a reported outbreak in the U.S. of another strain of avian influenza, H5N9. This H5N9 outbreak ...

A research study of bird flu viruses in cattle has shown that the H5N1 strain does not pose an increased threat to humans.