How vulnerable might humans be to bird flu? Scientists see hope in existing immunity
Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...
New strain of bird flu wipes out Mississpi poultry farm; human flu may offer immunity
H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.
US courts health disaster as it drops the ball on flu preparedness | GUEST COMMENTARY
At a time when next season’s flu planning should be firmly underway, the United States is setting itself back.
H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows
Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk ...
Health Rounds: Older adults may be less vulnerable in a bird flu pandemic
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...
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Calf Milk Poses H5N1 Risk, Too
Soon after the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain H5N1 in dairy cattle, scientists learned that ...
H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses, research finds
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...
U.N. agency warns bird flu spreading at 'unprecedented' scale, calls for global response
A United Nations health agency has called the spread of H5N1 bird flu "unprecedented" and called on world leaders to ...