Dairy cows build a natural immunity to H5N1 after initial infection according to research conducted at the University of ...

H5N1 bird flu, also known as avian influenza, continues to spread, with reports of a third human case from an unknown ...

A new antibody therapy effectively protects monkeys from severe H5N1 avian flu, offering hope for a universal flu vaccine and ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

Different blends of those two proteins alongside many other mutations elsewhere in the virus can affect how sick people and animals get and how it spreads. H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of ...

Cats are particularly susceptible to the virus. This post was updated because an earlier version contained inaccurate information. According to state health officials, the H5N1 virus has not been ...

Cats are particularly susceptible to the virus. (Correction: According to state health officials, the H5N1 virus has not been detected in cows on licensed dairy farms in Massachusetts since August.

When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly ...

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

Here's what you need to know about the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, and what bird flu might mean to you, your chickens and pets. Bird flu is an influenza A virus that causes respiratory ...

The combination of these proteins defines the virus subtype, such as H5N1 or H5N9. There are nine known subtypes of A(H5) viruses - A(H5N1), A(H5N2), A(H5N3), A(H5N4), A(H5N5), A(H5N6), A(H5N7), A ...