Two new studies released in 2025 provide a mixed picture of how well our current antivirals are holding up against H5N1, 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 ...

So far, the bird flu virus has not been found to bind well to human cells or take hold in the human respiratory system. But the virus has already shown a ready ability to mutate, not unlike how ...

Early flu exposure helps immunity against H5N1 infection, with older adults having stronger antibody responses.

One age group are more likely to have antibodies that bind to the H5N1 avian flu virus, new research has found.

The disease has resulted in millions of animals being culled as the close contact with humans poses a great risk.

New research suggests that past exposure to seasonal flu viruses may help protect people from severe illness caused by the ...

Bird flu has been spreading to mammals ... it has to be able to get into our cells, make more of itself inside of them, get back out of those cells, and then get out of that host—that person ...

A sheep infected with bird flu will ring another alarm bell as the ... particularly if the virus shows signs of adapting to mammalian cells. And the close contact that humans have with ...

Sette and his team tested blood samples collected from volunteers to identify whether their T cells that target fragments of the flu virus could do the same for H5N1 bird flu. "There was a nearly ...