H5N1 has been detected in over 9,000 wild birds, 90 million poultry and in dairy cattle. A recent human case in Texas has ...

Worldwide, infectious diseases cause over 10 million deaths each year. Learn how pathogenicity islands and bacteriophage genes end up making these potent viruses. As the genomic sequences of ...

The H5N1 “bird flu” is ripping across America, decimating bird flocks and even infecting a few humans and other mammals.

A paper published on the open-access website bioRxiv claimed that doctors trained by China's military created their own ...

In light of the United States Food and Drug Administration's announcement that bird flu has been discovered in cow's milk, ...

Lawmakers interrogated Peter Daszak over his ties to China and whether his organisation, EcoHealth Alliance, has been a good ...

But even if its pathogenicity dropped from 52.8 percent all the way down to 2.5 percent, that would still equal the Spanish flu’s. To deal with this potential crisis, the U.S. is already developing, ...

The black fly has long been reviled in the Adirondacks. A look at the evolution of the pesticide Bti and its efficacy and ...

AIM is a machine-learning classifier that combines over 3.5 million variations from thousands of identified cases and ...

They can also infect domestic poultry and other animals. Avian influenza A viruses are divided into two categories: low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) A viruses and high pathogenic avian ...

Gregory Petsko of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston had a different interpretation. Since tau is not an integral membrane protein, he thinks that SORL1 must meet tau at the cell surface where the ...

After COVID-19, could avian influenza trigger the next pandemic? Until recently, it was thought to be a disease transmissible ...