Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can ...

Affiliazione: Former Professor of General Pathology and Veterinary Pathophysiology at the Veterinary Medical Faculty of the University of Teramo, 64100 Teramo, Italy Abstract: While the COVID-19 ...

Pigs are the most important reservoir for influenza A viruses, acting as an intermediary host for both interspecies transmission and genetic reassortment. This is due to the high susceptibility of ...

The new nasal vaccine only needs one dose and produces reliable immunity right at the site where the virus enters the body.

The antigenic shift is produced by the reassortment of genetic components from human and nonhuman influenza viruses. The antigenic shift produces new human influenza viruses with antigenic ...

Some of these genetic mutations cause no immediate differences, while others alter some key viral characteristics. Influenza viruses mutate in a special way called reassortment, which occurs when ...