Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

The H (sometimes HA), is hemagglutinin, a lollipop-shaped protein that binds to a receptor on a human cell, the first step toward getting the virus inside the cell. The N is neuraminidase, a second ...

"Each flu virus, which we call influenza, has a hemagglutinin protein that initiates an infection when it attaches to cells.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided a major update on the first human case of bird flu in the US with ...

Disease investigators have not been able to determine how a person in Missouri with no known exposures to animals or poultry became infected with an H5 bird flu virus.

It also dives deeper than other efforts that use PCR to look for the H5 hemagglutinin gene. The potentially more sensitive ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on September 13 shared new information from Missouri officials on ...

A person in Missouri is the United States’ first case of H5 avian influenza without a known exposure to a sick animal, the US ...

WASHINGTON — Public health officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident contracted bird flu without having ...

In parallel with COVID, in 2020 the reassortment of H5N6 and H5N8 with the H5-2.3.4.4b hemagglutinin gene and strains of ...

Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human ...