As South Africans continue to experience the winter chill, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases ( NICD is urging ...

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In the ongoing fight against HIV, scientists have taken a new step toward long-term control of the virus. Researchers have ...

Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

The bird flu virus remains a wild card that continues to threaten U.S. poultry and egg supplies while upping the ante with risk to human health.

Structural Biology Flu virus transcription caught in the act Cryo-EM experts make a movie of influenza’s replication machinery, which could lead to better antivirals by Louisa Dalton, special to ...

Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way for the current outbreak.

To become adept at infecting humans, the virus would have to change the structure of its hemagglutinin. Its current version sticks to a specific arrangement of sugars on the surface of bird cells.

The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.

The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, according to three sources familiar with the situation.