A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

On Dec. 6, the sample tested positive for H5N1 bird flu. A second test conducted by a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory confirmed the presence of the virus on Dec. 18. Asked about the test ...

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The CDC and MDH are advising health care providers to order further laboratory testing on positive influenza A specimens ...

Different blends of those two proteins alongside many other combinations of mutations elsewhere in the virus can affect how sick people and animals get and how it spreads. H5N1 has been the ...

That message was delivered Wednesday during a virtual update from state health officials on the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus. Officials are waiting for test results from a few ...

The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a massive $306 million investment toward bolstering America’s defenses against H5N1 Avian Flu.

As cases of H5N1 bird flu rise across the U.S., some of us may be more immune to the virus than others. Many people may have immune cells called "T cells" primed and ready to fight the "highly ...

But how do researchers know that if a person tests positive for influenza A, it’s not H5N1 avian flu ... based PCR test done for influenza and an influenza A virus is detected, the virus ...