Human cells activate self-destruction when viruses disrupt RNA production, study shows

They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes ...
Newsweek

Influenza A: What Is the Virus and How Is It Linked to Bird Flu?

We've all heard of "the flu" but when it comes to types, subtypes and variants, influenza can get a bit complicated. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly ...
EurekAlert!

Influenza A viruses adapt shape in response to environmental pressures

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 filaments ...
Scientific American

Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Binding More Efficiently to Human Cells

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Sequencing-Based Detection of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Wastewater in Ten Cities

Panel A shows dereplicated reads from wastewater virome sequencing assigned to H5N1 from all samples with a validated H5N1 signal aligned to a recently collected H5N1 2.3.4.4b reference sequence ...