Drinking raw unpasteurized milk can be dangerous because of the presence of pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The latest reason to add to the list is the presence of Influenza H5N1, ...

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working ...

Bird flu appears to be rising in the U.S., but only among people exposed to infected animals — namely, cows and poultry.Since ...

Second, unlike SARS-CoV-2, HCoV-OC43 (and rOC43-CoV2-S) possesses an additional surface glycoprotein, the hemagglutinin-esterase (HE). Generally, coronavirus HE proteins bind to ...

Europe's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended granting marketing authorization for two vaccines: Fluad (surface antigen, inactivated, adjuvanted) and Flucelvax ...

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 ...

The structure of a complex of influenza hemagglutinin (HA) with a neutralizing antibody shows that the antibody binds to HA at a distance from the virus receptor binding site. Comparison of the ...

Paramyxoviruses have two surface glycoproteins, a hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein and a fusion (F) protein. HN has three functions: it recognizes sialic acid-containing receptors on cell ...

Influenza virus, also known as the flu, is caused by influenza A and B viruses. Each year in Canada, about five to ten percent of adults and 20 to 30 percent of children are infected with influenza, ...

Source: World Bank (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups). We analyzed WHO STEPS surveys and one ...