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 ...

When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly changed ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

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 ...