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

Highlights. Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) is investing in research to address the threat of H5N1, an avian influenza virus that poses a risk to poultry. Recently, British Columbia identified the ...

Introduction Urban transmission patterns of influenza viruses are complex and poorly understood, and multiple factors may play a critical role in modifying transmission. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) ...

3.2. Prevalence and Molecular Detection of Flu B Types, Subtypes and Lineages. We observed that Influenza A viruses and Influenza B viruses circulated every year, with varying intensities (Figure ...

Avian influenza A(H5N1) virus is spreading through dairy herds across the United States. In this report, wastewater surveillance shows the increase of H5N1 across 10 urban communities.

Avian influenza virus continues to pose zoonotic, epizootic, and pandemic threats worldwide, as exemplified by the 2020–23 epizootics of re-emerging H5 genotype avian influenza viruses among birds and ...

The body’s immune system recognizes a protein in the virus and mounts an immune response. This response produces T-cells that attack the virus and stop it from spreading. It also produces “memory” ...

Influenza is a global health concern, due to annual epidemics of the disease and its potential to cause a pandemic with novel strain variants. Whole-genome sequencing enables ongoing surveillance and ...

To summarize, the study used published whole genome sequences of the monkeypox virus to explore the genetic variation and phylogenomic patterns within the Clade IIb lineage B.1.

Introduction. First discovered in 1940 (Francis, 1940), the influenza B virus has since caused significant morbidity and mortality in the global population (Sharma et al., 2019).As per the recent ...

Sterilising immunity that blocks infection for life, and thus prevents illness after infection, is the ultimate goal for vaccines. Neither influenza infection nor vaccination provide sterilising ...