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

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled “A single mutation in ...

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 ...

For the avian flu virus to be transmitted from one human to another, it would first have to develop the ability to successfully attach itself to human receptors. The aforementioned study did not ...

H5N1 bird flu, also known as avian influenza, continues to spread, with reports of a third human case from an unknown ...

Professor Munir Iqbal, a researcher at the institute, stated: "We conducted a rapid risk profile of the receptor binding properties and fusion pH of ‘original’ dairy cattle, emerging mutations in ...