The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 ...

The case involved the D1.1 strain of H5N1, the same subtype that caused the severe condition of a 13-year-old girl in Canada late last year. Genetic sequencing of the Louisiana patient’s virus ...

Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Salon H5N1 and other ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an advisory recommending clinicians expedite subtyping of type ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of the H5N1 subtype is presently among the ... The other cases are scattered across Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Texas ...

Influenza is a common respiratory virus that is categorized into four ... Its full scientific name is avian influenza A(H5N1), so it contains hemagglutinin 5 and neuraminidase 1.

If you are wondering what the different letters and numbers used to name influenza viruses mean, such as H1N1, H3N2, H5N1 ... virus, strain 05, discovered in Sydney, Australia in 1997, and a ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating ...

This pathogenic avian influenza A is a subtype that is found in cows ... with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A, H5N1 virus that primarily causes bird flu, has a high potential for ...