In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...
H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...
After years of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is now facing a new threat: the highly contagious H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu. Scientists monitoring the virus have ...
Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...
The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...
H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.
New research suggests that past exposure to seasonal flu viruses may help protect people from severe illness caused by the ...
In an update yesterday on scientific investigations related to H5N1 avian flu activity, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Previous exposures to older flu strains prime the immune system to produce antibodies against bird flu (H5N1).
Discovery of "an overall worsening in antibody affinity to more recent H5N1 isolates" indicates current and future H5N1 viral lineages pose a greater risk to human health—including the ...