Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A/H3N2 virus particles, isolated from a patient sample and then propagated in cell culture. Influenza A virus particles adapt shape—as ...

The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans has historically been high, with more than half of ...

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The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 has adapted to spread between birds and marine mammals, posing an immediate threat to wildlife conservation, according to a study from the University ...

This widespread circulation, Rasmussen warned, increases the likelihood of the virus mixing with seasonal influenza, potentially triggering “rapid evolutionary leaps,” similar to events that ...

Hospitalization rates were 81.7% for RSV, 31.5% for omicron, and 27.7% for influenza, Dr. Pontus Hedberg and researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm reported.

There are only two cases on record reported in the U.S., according to the CDC. Bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus, was first detected in 1996 among birds in China ...

Influenza A can also infect other animals, notably birds (e.g., the H5N1 subtype behind the ongoing outbreak) and pigs (such as in the 2009 H1N1 "Swine Flu" pandemic). In contrast, influenza B can ...