The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

The state of Michigan has confirmed the flu has killed two children making them the first pediatric flu deaths in the state ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Specifically, there are 18 possible types of a protein called hemagglutinin (H) and 11 types of neuraminidase (N); influenza subtypes are labeled depending on which of these proteins are present.

Flu A and flu B are two different strains of influenza, explains Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 ... the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes]. Thus, a type A virus isolated in 1995 in ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were ...

“Although individual vaccines have been developed and approved for use in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses, there is no vaccine approved to simultaneously protect against both viral ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...