Preexisting immunity to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus provided near-complete protection against severe H5N1 disease and ...

Kennedy Jr. has downplayed the effectiveness of the long-used vaccine and instead promoted the development of new treatments ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

like Plum Island Animal Disease Center a few nautical miles off the Connecticut coastline in Orient Point, New York, or the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas. When cells are ...

H5N1 influenza outbreaks have been reported on more than 1.070 dairy farms in the United States since 2024. The virus ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves.

The DEAD-box RNA helicase 27 negatively regulates the replication of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus by mediating GP2a autophagy degradation and inducing interferon-β production ...

Watertown Animal Control is urging everyone to avoid animals in the wild due to the spread of distemper virus. In the past few months, there was an outbreak of distemper virus in Watertown that ...

On the PCRM podcast, Barnard described animal farms as “not particularly hygienic,” creating many opportunities for the bird flu virus to find new hosts. He said that by buying animal products such as ...

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