The first known case of bird flu in a sheep anywhere in the world has been found on a Yorkshire farm. The case was identified ...

A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Though there are no ...

Because of its segmented pattern, the OROV genome is likely to undergo reassortment and recombination events. The study identified 21 reassortment events (including 17 S-M, 7 S-L, and 11 M-L ...

There are concerns about a more dangerous virus emerging, combining bird flu and seasonal flu in a process called reassortment. “I am very worried about H5N1 in patients that are being treated ...

These findings suggest that genetic reassortment events with the HA and NA segments contribute to their genetic diversity and the adaptability of these mutated viruses to infect new hosts.