H5N1 avian influenza virus was first found infecting cattle in 2024, though its risk of adapting to infect and spread through ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ...

University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health scientists report that seasonal influenza vaccination prevented 32.9% to ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...

But influenza viruses are slippery beasts ... “The whole reproduction system was damaged,” she says. “There was no social structure anymore.” Large animal die-offs could also throw whole ecosystems in ...

Influenza hemagglutinin subunit vaccines are more effective and offer better cross protection against various influenza virus challenges when combined with a mucosal adjuvant that enhances the ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...

HKUMed has achieved a significant breakthrough in developing needle-free, live-attenuated influenza vaccines with broad protection against human and avian virus subtypes.

Viruses under the super microscope: How influenza viruses communicate with cells New mechanisms for influenza viruses to enter cells uncovered Date: May 7, 2025 Source: Helmholtz Centre for ...