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

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

Moreover, the authors demonstrated that small-molecule inhibitors of several factors, including the vacuolar ATPase and calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase 2β, inhibited influenza virus ...

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.

If this occurs, H5N1 could potentially start spreading from human to human. Influenza viruses are covered with two lollipop-shaped proteins called hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, for which the ...

6, 2024 — A single modification in the protein found on the surface of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating in U.S. dairy cows could allow for ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

Two surface proteins, HA and NA, determine the antigenic properties of influenza virus strains. In 1958, a new strain of influenza A with different HA and NA was identified and antigenic shift was ...

Flu A and B viruses cause human infection, but influenza A viruses additionally infect multiple animal species. Indeed, wild birds are the natural reservoir for most influenza A viruses, including ...

Influenza A is divided into subtypes based on two proteins on the virus's surface: hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. These lead to different combinations—with H1N1 and H3N2 presently the most ...