Centre says human-to-human transmission of H5N1 virus is uncommon, but a national joint outbreak response team has been deployed to undertake an epidemiological investigation.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

Cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been recorded among wild and domestic birds in 31 countries, according ...

The loops (epitopes) are from low-expressing neuraminidases and the scaffold is derived from a high-expressing neuraminidase. This paper is an important contribution giving new insights into the ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

Help may also come from antibodies aimed at the other dominant protein on the surface of influenza viruses, called neuraminidase. In her lab, Lakdawala has recently run experiments on ferrets (a ...