This strain is different from the version that ... it may only be a matter of time before an H5N1 pandemic," he said. Sam Scarpino, director of AI and life sciences and professor of health ...

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks.

With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened offers lessons for today.

making predictions of the strain that will cause a pandemic more difficult; There is need for biosafety level-3 containment laboratory to manipulate the virulent H5N1 strains; If and when a ...

Type A is a family of influenza viruses that includes several strains, including the one that caused the 2009 swine flu pandemic and H5N1 which is currently tearing through dairy and poultry farms ...

Almost four decades after the last pandemic, the WHO declared that the emergence and persistence of the H5N1 strain of influenza A in birds is a public-health threat and published early response ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexandra M. Lord, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) In recent months ...