Chinese scientists have found out how the H5N1 virus initially invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle and may have ...

The M2 protein of influenza A viruses forms a tetrameric proton channel that is targeted by the amantadine class of antiviral drugs. A S31N mutation in the transmembrane (TM) domain of the protein has ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa ...

The Arizona Department has issued a warning after avian flu was found in milk produced by cows at a dairy in Maricopa County. AZDA did not identify the dairy, but said the detection happened on June ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) has confirmed a new detection of H5N1 avian influenza in milk from a Maricopa ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to know about symptoms and vaccines.

Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Two types of macrophages—the white blood ...

Influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 Virus Therapeutics and Challenges Shailendra K Saxena; Rosaiah Kotikalapudi; Sneham Tiwari; Charuvaka Muvva Disclosures Future Virology. 2012;7 (10):947-950.

Each year, influenza causes 12,200 hospitalizations and 3500 deaths in Canada. It causes between 140,000 and 810,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the United States.

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has been declared free of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Puerto Rico had its first and only instance of HPAI confirmed in mid-January, in which a backyard ...

The United States has confirmed the virus in about 10 times as many commercial and backyard flocks since 2022, the USDA said. About 175 million U.S. chickens, turkeys and other birds have been culled.

Maternal Influenza A vaccination and viral infection alter gut and nasal microbial communities. Relative abundance of the top ten genera found in A) nasal and B) gut microbial communities of ...