Possible evidence of bird flu vaccinations driving virus evolution
A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and the U.K. has found possible evidence that bird flu vaccinations are driving ...
Scientific American6h
The Latest on Bird Flu in Humans, Cats and Chickens
H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, and additional cases have been reported in domestic cats ...
Farm and Dairy17h
Researchers are concerned by H5N1 bird flu’s ability to mutate, reassort
The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...
poultrymed8h
Avian influenza H5N1: A growing Threat to global biodiversity
H5 to global biodiversity was published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity. The article addresses the emerging threat posed by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus, which carries significant ...
MIT Technology Review8h
This is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO
WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention ...
Scientists Expose Structural Secrets of Trypanosome Parasites
The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...