It takes several hours for the results of a polymerase chain reaction test, which “detects genetic material from a pathogen ...

While the risk of contracting and dying from the H5N1 avian flu remains low for humans, researchers continue to hunt for ...

Avian influenza has been rampaging in wild birds around the world since late 2021. It can be considered widespread in wild ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it aims to accomplish within four years a scientific feat ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century ...

Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

Flu viruses are wily because they mutate from season ... virus that’s been chemically tweaked so it can’t infect human cells. The project comes from work being driven by Dr. Matthew Memoli ...