A new H5N1 strain has been spotted in cows and New York is temporarily closing live poultry markets, among other warning ...

When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

(NEXSTAR) – The flu is spreading far and wide across the U.S. – and influenza A is largely to blame. Of all the flu tests reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since the start of ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...

A new strain of bird flu has emerged in dairy herds in Nevada in the US. This is the first time this strain has been found in ...

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) confirmed the ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

A shift in the H5N1 virus has allowed it to spread more easily from birds to cows, raising concerns about its evolution.