A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

If the world finds itself grappling with a flu pandemic soon ... ill from HPAI A(H5N1) virus. … The analysis identified low-frequency mutations in the hemagglutinin gene of a sample sequenced ...

“When new copies of the virus would be made, it would put a copy of each segment ... of genes, a real threat to public health. That’s why Jarvis says getting the flu vaccine is smart to ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can exchange genetic material. This is known as genetic shift,” Michael ...

This is a concern, as it raises the questions of whether the H5N1 virus can actually swap gene segment with other flu? The first case of the recent bird flu outbreak in the US came in September ...