Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

His reserach receives funding from UKRI and the Wellcome Trust. H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020.

A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in ...

C Raina MacIntyre receives funding from NHMRC (L3 Investigator grant and Centre for Research Excellence) and MRFF (Aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 experimentally and in an intensive care ...

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird flu. Fortunately, we haven't seen any sustained spread between humans ...

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was the first confirmed case of ...