A Thursday press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about the department’s response to the highly pathogenic ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Kennedy Jr made a controversial suggestion as to how to tackle the problem of H5N1 bird flu: consider letting it run through ...

Its full scientific name is avian influenza A(H5N1), so it contains hemagglutinin 5 and neuraminidase 1. Bird flu primarily affects birds, as per the name, but has adapted to infect cows and can ...

The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated timeline, ideally within 24 hours. Nirav Shah, MD, JD, principal deputy director ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

A new PEARLS article in PLoS Pathogens reviews the rapid evolution and pandemic potential of emerging influenza A viruses, with a focus on H5N1. It highlights scientific advances and future ...

Nissly: H5N1 avian influenza is a subtype of the influenza A viruses, which also include human influenza virus in people, canine influenza virus in dogs, swine influenza virus in pigs, avian ...

But how do researchers know that if a person tests positive for influenza A, it’s not H5N1 avian flu? ... “However, we do need subtype confirmation to make sure it's H5, ...

The first severe case of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana. ... There are multiple subtypes of the bird flu, but H5 subtypes of influenza A are the most common.

H5N1 is a specific strain of influenza A virus, also known as bird flu. The avian flu is a highly contagious respiratory disease that primarily affects birds, but can also infect other animals ...

H5N1 is a specific strain of influenza A virus, also known as bird flu. The avian flu is a highly contagious respiratory disease that primarily affects birds, but can also infect other animals ...