Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Future Microbiol. 2015;10(1):131-140. Sirnaomics have developed a siRNA-based therapeutic agent against influenza virus known as STP702. STP702 has been shown to be effective against H5N1 (avian ...

Universal Ostrich Farm has been fighting a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) order ever since an avian flu outbreak last ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or "Nimbus," that has spread across Europe, the Americas and the Western Pacific.

Influenza A virus (IAV) possesses a segmented, negative-sense RNA genome comprising eight distinct viral RNA (vRNA) segments. These segments form ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes that are ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the ...

In a study of newborn piglets, infection with influenza A was associated with disruptions in the piglets' nasal and gut ...

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

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Researchers from Purdue University and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently developed a novel influenza vaccine candidate that uses a bovine adenoviral (BAd) vector to ...

This virus was named Influenza B and the inactivated influenza vaccine had to be bivalent to provide protection against both types of influenza viruses (Figure 1).