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

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It’s a sign that ...

In prior bird flu outbreaks, there’ve been several documented cases of feline-to-feline spread, but ingestion seems to be the ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an ...

Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but 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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...