A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

The tradition, called a guga hunt, dates back to the 15th Century but has not been held for the last three years due to ...

After an outbreak at a B.C. farm, Canada’s food inspection agency said nearly 400 surviving ostriches would be killed ...

In just 3 years, the Influenza Vaccines Research and Development (R&D) Roadmap Initiative has demonstrated important ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. A seemingly ingenious and sneaky way for viruses to make these leaps is by swapping ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

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Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH’s Medical Collection to decode ...