As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human and bird flu strains.

Rzs and Dz are also being explored as additional mechanisms for gene silencing in many viruses including influenza and have shown their potential in controlling these viruses. Although ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

“If a version of bird flu had a gene mutation that allowed it to spread easily between people, it could cause a pandemic,” the Cleveland Clinic says. But that hasn’t happened yet, and ...

The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding raises some worrying ...

Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to figures published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

and we’ve also observed similar increase in the influenza viral gene copies we monitor at both the Oxford and Hamilton City Waste Water Treatment Plants,” said Butler County Health Commissioner Erik ...

In the near future, gene silencing against influenza viruses may also be successfully applied in antiviral therapeutics. There are several bottlenecks in the successful application of gene ...